New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-16
THE NEW TROJAN VAR.
Nom The London TYmss.

Fr0m The London Times
Tn January last we published an account
from well-nfOrmed correspondent whose ability was
attested few days later by writer very competent TO
in the Levant" In that letter occurred statement to
the effect that Dr. schemanns resumption OF his ex-
nation of his an hypothesis the famous qualification
of civilization which supposed to testify to the eI
shown TO be untenabe and further the site IS
stopped" This statement provoked a somewhat tart
evidently no arch@oOgst" The excavations, he ad-
mitted were terminated forever though not because
they had failed TO establish certain hypothesis put pc
cause they practically complete. AS to the ny
pothess ITSELF the latest explorations conducted last
year with the aid Of two eminent hone
of Vienna and DR. DGrpfed, OF Berlinwhle correcting
1t in certain details had confirmed IL In all important
particulars and established the succession OF 1--WE prehs
torc and two later settlements as described by Dr.
Schllemann in his work entitled lios In eorroooraton
OF his statement Dr. Schemann referred to letter from
DR.. D0rpfed, Of the architects employed which vas
published last autumn In the Augsburg 4Hgemetne Ze.o
hing The challenge thus offered by Dr. Schiemann 70
his antagonists was promptly taken up 6y writer IN
our columns who signed himself one VINO mas r SsS
ers of the last number OF The Journal OF Hellenic
Studies will easily recognize an eminent scholar WHO
may not unfairly be called the Achilles OF the modern
Trojan war; both because he Is an antagonist nara 10 van
modern days, he is, perhaps just trle DPtger, IRA,
eds IoraSs Gee AT any rae , ne sn3Sed n Of
DR. DGrpfed not entirely sustained by that gentle
mans own account OF the matter The result OF Dr.
seven but only six periods Of buildings at Hssarlik
The sOcalled Lydan city OF Dr. schemann disappeared
was by common consent, the latest Roman phase OF
the historic Greek Hmm The fourth, originally den-
fed by DR.. Schliemann the HOmerlc Troy was de-
scribed by Dr. D0rpfeld as small and wretched VII
lageo The ffth now identified by Dr. schliemann with
1roy-In preference to the discarded fourth whose
proportions have lately been described by the doctor
himself as altogether Liputian was large pre-
Hellenic city which extended the adjoining plain
It's Acropolis only occupying the mound OF Hssarlk
while the sixth and lowest OF ALL really distinct from
ne seen from letter from DR.. D0rpeld himself which
print elsewhere, that this account OF his viewss
fa1Tt- Ile az
the writer already quoted who on this point more or
less at variance with DR.. D0rpfed that at Hssarlik
tance. and above it the historic Greek um IN at
three successive phases-Roman Macedonian, creek
schemanns original hypothesis as stated in llios"
Tie Lydian CITY, which made seven In all Is gone alto
over Dr. Schliemann has himself admitted that the two
masses cacined debris which he had attributed to the
third city really belong to the second city, which per-
material respects Dr. Schemann stouty maintans his
ground. Fuh Hmm ia his motto. There was Troy,
ana We cannot find it in stratum Hissarik. we
must look for IL In another. There something almost
pathetic in the enacity with which he cnSs TO THIS run
damenta convection Driven from the third city, count
ing from below he takes his stand the second. which
certainly larger and therefore suits his purpose bet
ter though the theory is no more successful than
the old in overcoming the fundamental difficulty arising
out of the nadequacy of the whole area OF the mound at
Hissark "a site for the AcrOpolis of the Homeric
Hum. Now that the third city Is abandoned, Its houses
admitted by DR.. schlemann to be i1putian. II is
should have inspired him with greater caution III de-
visng another to take its place.
The whole controversy, however, though In great
part it has ragged about mere phantom has not been
without certain positive results. Dr. Schiemann and
his leading opponents virtually agreed as to the
existence at ssarlk OF the remains Ot important pre-
historic city, which was OF no inconsderable dimensions
and was certainly destroyer by fire. To IL Schlemann
this certainly Troy OF Homer; but as he has ad-
mitted that Homer could by possibility have seen IT,
he will probably acknowledge that IL Is useless TO trace
the details OF HOmcric topography among Its remains.
1t will be seen that DIT D0rpleld amply confirms Dr.
Schiemanns statement, which has encountered no little
rldcue and incredibly than Greek or Roman archi-
ectural remains found at greater depth than two
metres; but he acknowledges ut the same time that
this fact is by decisive of the question at issue
between DR.. Schliemann and his opponents; indeed II
IL somewhat difficult TO how the statement can be
reconcled with previous admission made by Dr. DGrp-
fell that nOne OF the buildings beOL gng 10 the first
five cities displays any architectural characteristics
which could even approximately determine their chro-
nOlOgy."