Lascelles, John.

Troy : Homer's Guide to Pergamon. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (217 pages)

Intro -- Troy: The World Deceived -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- Notes -- Part 1 -- The Mystery of Troy -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Importance of Troy -- Homer: Iliad -- Homer: Odyssey -- Supporting Accounts -- Rejecting False Trails -- Hisarlik, the False Troy -- Inadequate Hisarlik -- Strabo, the Geographer -- Some Writers Undeceived -- Achilles' Conquests -- Priam's Realm -- Part 2 -- The Location of Troy -- See for Yourself -- Approach to Bergama -- Old Aesyete's Tomb -- The Burial Mound Maltepe -- Toward the Acropolis -- Acropolis Ilios and Troy, -- Great Altar of Zeus -- Philetaerus, Founder of Pergamon -- Attalids of Pergamon -- Telephus Frieze from Pergamon -- Scaean Gate of Acropolis Ilios -- Place of the Wild Fig Tree -- The Weak Point -- Trojan Dwellings -- Water Supply -- Temple of Trajan -- The Athena Precinct -- Before the Attalids -- Archaeologists Amazed to Find Earlier Restorations -- Palaces of Priam, Hector, and Paris -- Features of the Acropolis -- Troy, the Citadel Hill -- Through the Markets -- Dardanian Gate -- Homer's Wagon Track -- Homer's Springs -- The Second Spring -- The Washing Tanks -- Processional Way -- Asklepion -- Water Channels -- Underground Bath House -- Treatment Building -- Viewing the Landscape -- The Hill, Erigöl -- Bakir Ҫayi or Caicus River -- The Ford of Scamander -- Achilles Routs the Trojans -- Homer's Hill Callicolone -- Heracles' Heaped-Up Wall -- Tumuli in the South -- Rising Ground of the Plain -- Tumulus of Ilus -- Dema Liman-Ancient Elaea -- Encampment of the Achaeans -- Priam's Desperate Journey -- Mound by Selinos -- Ilios, the Acropolis -- Laomedon and Penthesilea -- Part 3 -- Hiding the Real Troy -- Marble from Paros -- Clue to the Motive -- Why Hide Troy? -- Why Choose Paros? -- Pisistratus Edits Homer -- Poseidon's View -- Aristarchus Edits Homer. Part 4 -- The Time of the Trojan War -- When Did Troy Fall? -- Dating the Fall of Troy -- Venture into Chronology -- Solomon to Carthage -- Assyrian Queen Semiramis -- Heracles: God or Man? -- Descent from Heracles -- Lengthening History -- What Is a 'Generation'? -- Herodotus, the Historian -- The Theme of Herodotus -- How Old Is Cadiz? -- Egypt's Trojan Colony -- Vergil Probes a Mystery -- 300-Year Bubble -- All-Pervading Skepticism -- Reconstruction -- Toward Understanding -- Part Five -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Archaeology of Pergamon -- Tips for Tourists -- Covered Features.

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