Arizona republican., 1907-09-01

even been found to prove that they
 were built in the Homeric period, or
 that they ever contained the bones of those particular heroes. The tomb as- signed to Hector was excavated by Sir John Lubbock, but contained nothing. The main features of the Trojan
 landscape agree with the descriptions
 in the poem: No one who has not
 seen the magnificent outline which
 bounds the horizon of the plain of Troy" Prof. Seymour remarks, can
 bring home to his mind the stirring
 and marvellous narrative of the poet as Homer meant it to affect his readers,
 or, rather, hearers
 Ancient Hum lay a trifle more than
 three miles from the Hellespont. The
 summit Of the citadel was I62 feet
 above the level of the sea and so feet
 above the plain. It was sacked, but the more substantial buildings and the city walls were not razed to the ground.
 A passage in the twentieth book of the Iliad-the prediction by Poseidon that the mighty Aeneas and his sons sons should rule over the Trojans, was accepted by the Romans as the basis iof the story which is familiar to all from Virgil's Aenead-that Aeneas was saved from the conflict and led a com- pany of Troians to Italy. where they
 became the founders of Rome and the fathers of the Romans
 1 However scholars may explain the various stories Of the wanderings of Aeneas and his Trojans. Prof. Seymour says the ancient site of Hum was not long abandoned and that the traditions of it were never forgotten. Xerzes. in the spring of 4SO B. C.. visited the place and sacrificed a thousand cattle to the hereOs lof the siege of Troy. Alexander the Great ir 334 B. C.. did the same He offered splendid sacrifices to Athena. left some of his armor in her temple and took in exchange some of the armo- which had been saved from the Trojan war and had it borne before him in his battles. He propitiated the spirit of Priam, placed a garland of flowers upon the tomb of Achilles, adorned the temple with votive offer ings, and promised after the overthrow .of Parsia to make the city large and the temple renowned and have sacred games held there. Twelve years later Hum became the head of a confeder- acy which held a great festival there with games and sacrifices to Athena.
 The great general, Gaius Lixius. in the year 19O B. r.. was the first Roman to offer sacrifice and to recognize Hum as the cradle of his race. Julius Caesar vitited Hum in the next cent ury and is reported to have thought of making it the capital of the Roman IA s.Ta aa1 d. but also name from Iulus, son of Aencas.
 The Emperor Augustus restored and beautified the temple of Athena and built theater which would seat 6.00O people. Nero addressed the Roman senate in behalf of Ilium when he was only Is gears old. Claudius extended the privileges of the town. Hadrian visited Hum, restored the shrine of Ajax ard caused milestones to be set up on the roads. at least one of which is still preserved.
 Marcus Aurelius and nearly all the later Roman Emperors visited the place and paid it honor. The Emperor Constantine revived the plans of Julius Caesar to make Hum the capi- tai of the Roman Empire. He even drew a plan of the proposed city and began the erection of it's walls.
 After the Christian era and up to the time of the invasion of the Turks in 1906 Hum was the seat of bishop ric and down to the present day it has been visited by scholars and ofdin- ary travellers in large numbers every .'ear.
 To Dr. Heinrich Schlimann, Prof. Seymour gives the honor of determin- ing many important questions and set ting the controversies of centuries with the spade.
 Schliemann was a German by birth, long a resident of Russia, citizen of the United States, with a Greek wife, and made his home in Athens. AL though his early training had been for a trade and not for scholarship, he