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 . habitants, couldhave been identical with the great Homeric Ilios ofimmortal renown, which withstood for ten long yearsthe heroic efforts of the united Greek army of 110,000men, and which could only at last be captured by a stratagem. First, as regards the size of all the pre-historic cities, I repeat thatthey were but very small. In fact, we can hardly too much contract ourideas of the dimensio
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 . habitants, couldhave been identical with the great Homeric Ilios ofimmortal renown, which withstood for ten long yearsthe heroic efforts of the united Greek army of 110,000men, and which could only at last be captured by a stratagem. First, as regards the size of all the pre-historic cities, I repeat thatthey were but very small. In fact, we can hardly too much contract ourideas of the dimensions of those primeval cities. So, according to the Attic tradition, Athens was built by the Pelas-gians, and was limited to the small rock of the Acropolis, whose plateau isof oval form, 900 ft. long and 400 ft. broad at its broadest part; but itwas much smaller still until Cimon enlarged it by building the wall onits eastern declivity and levelling the slope within by means of Ionians, having captured the city, forced the Pelasgians to settleat the southern foot of the Acropolis. According to Thucydides, Athenswas only enlarged by the coalescence of the Attic demi there (auvoiKior^). No. 984. Plain LentoidGem of Cornelian.(3 : 4 actual , 28 ft.) 10 Paus. i. 28, § 3: Tfj 8e aitpoir6Xei, irX))v6<xov Klfioov (fKoSSfiriaev avrris 6 MiAriddov,irepifiaXeTv rb Xonrbv Aeyerot rov reixovsTleAacryovs oiK{\}/3£u),Mycenae (Mu/cfjvai), and all the other cities whose names are of theplural form, were probably at first limited to their stronghold, calledttoXis, and had their names in the singular; but the cities having beenenlarged, they received the plural name, the citadel being then calledAcropolis, and the lower town ttoXis. The most striking proof of this isthe name of the valley Polis in Ithaca, which, as I have shown above,2is not derived from a rea
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