Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . « , , , Depth, 50 ft.) female goddess, the patron deity ot the place, whethershe may have been called Ate or Athene, or have hadany other name; nay, there appears to be the highest probability thatall of them are copies of the celebrated primeval Palladium, to whichwas attached the fate of Troy, and which was fabled to have fallen fromheaven (see p. 153). According to the legend, the feet of th
Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . « , , , Depth, 50 ft.) female goddess, the patron deity ot the place, whethershe may have been called Ate or Athene, or have hadany other name; nay, there appears to be the highest probability thatall of them are copies of the celebrated primeval Palladium, to whichwas attached the fate of Troy, and which was fabled to have fallen fromheaven (see p. 153). According to the legend, the feet of this Palladium were joinedtogether, and they could not possibly be more joined than on these idols,on which the whole inferior part of the body is represented as a hemi-spherical lump. I may here call attention to the fact, that the form whichthe ancients commonly gave to some deities in the inferior part of thebody, as for instance to the statues of Hermes, served to indicate theirstability in the place where they were preserved. In like manner Victorywas represented without wings, when the idea of its permanence was tobe expressed. Mr. Gladstone calls attention to the fact, that we find in Homer. Chap. V.] THE TROJAN IDOLS. 233 but one clear instance of an image for religious worship. The solemnprocession in the 6th Iliad carries the dedicated veil or robe to thetemple of Athene on the summit of the hill, where the priestess Theanoreceives it, and deposits it on the knees of the goddess : 077/cev AOrjuairjs eVl yovvacrtv Thus it is evident that the poet imagined the Palladium to have been in asitting posture, and of human form, just as all idols were represented inhis time, and widely different from the hideous and barbaric idols I findat Hissarlik, even in the latest of the five pre-historic cities. It may beobserved that the famous figure of Niobe on Mount Sipylus, which isalluded to in the 24th book of the Iliad (614-617), and which probablywas originally inten
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