. The Burton Holmes lectures;. STREET TOMBS GRECIAN JOURNEYS 147 •dence in Athens, let me ask you to imagine him when hewas a Httle boy beginning life in a grocers-shop, but ani-mated by a resolve to make a fortune, in order to spend itin a search for the cities of which he had read in the poemsof Homer. This in itself is remarkable. How much moreso is the fact that the grocer s-boy not only made thefortune, but actually discovered and uncovered Troy. Andnot content with this he sought and found Mycenae, thecity of Agamemnon and the tomb and the golden treasuresof that legendary king — treasur
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. STREET TOMBS GRECIAN JOURNEYS 147 •dence in Athens, let me ask you to imagine him when hewas a Httle boy beginning life in a grocers-shop, but ani-mated by a resolve to make a fortune, in order to spend itin a search for the cities of which he had read in the poemsof Homer. This in itself is remarkable. How much moreso is the fact that the grocer s-boy not only made thefortune, but actually discovered and uncovered Troy. Andnot content with this he sought and found Mycenae, thecity of Agamemnon and the tomb and the golden treasuresof that legendary king — treasures which are now enshrinedat Athens in the National Museum. At least Schliemanndied tirm in this belief, his faith in the accuracy of hisdeductions happily unshaken by the criticisms. 148 GRECIAN JOURNEYS of more learned but much less successful was in 1871 that Schliemann dug the first trench atTroy. Having laid bare the site of King Priam s capital,he came to Greece to seek the city of Agamemnon, theconqueror of Troy ; and, as before, success crowned hisendeavor, and the fruits of his labors at Mycenae are nowthe most precious possessions of the National defy the most hardened traveler to traverse this roomlistlessly. The Schliemann treasures possess a power ofattraction which is irresistible. These cases are filled withornaments in pure gold. The mere bullion value of themetal exceeds $20,000, but the objects fashioned of thatprehistoric gold are also of priceless artistic value. Exposedto our gaze are ornaments of gold which were made notlater than twelve hundred years before the birth of Christ.
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