The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-06-29
GRAVE OF ACHILLES THERE
Ancient FortresSes Equipped
With Huge Medieval Can
non-Dardanel|es Worlds
Great BattIefieId-GreateSt
Chapter in It's History Being
Written
Lawrence Flick, Jr.. in Philadelphia
Record.

Lawrence Flick, Jr.. in Philade1phla
Record.
The great shells from the battle
ships Of the allied fleet. laundering on
their way to the forts that defend the
Dardanelles, describe a huge arc over
around made famous by Homer, the
greatest of the poets. 1t is ground
more familiar in literature than any
save the Holy Land itself. 1t is the
ground where Troy stood a thousand
years before the down of the Chris
tian era.
Within sight Of the gunners on the
allied ships is the spot where Achilles.
the hero Of the Greeks, who con
quered Troy, is supposed to lie buried,
in the armor forged for him by the
zoe Vulcan. Just beyond Kun Kale
fort within the Dardanelles on the
Asiatic side, ranges the long beach
tho lsand ships. Beyond, on the far
side Of the River Menderes, the
Scamander of the Iliad, the Hill of
Hissarlik marks the remains of the
city Of Troy itself. Between the
River Menderes and the Simois, flow
ing through the broad plain in front
of the Hill Of Hissarlik, is the ground
fertiliZed of old by the mingled blood
of Greek and Trojan.
1t is historic land, the scene of end
less conflict through all the ages be-
tween East and West. 1t was a bat
tleground before the days Of the Tro-
Jams. 1t may be a battle-ground again
if the allies succeed in landing troops
in force for a land attack upon the
Turkish defenses of the Dardanel-
les.
The Scene of the Had.
Every school boy has read the story
of Troy. 1t has been immortalized by
the Had. Homer's master work. Il
will be recalled that Paris. son Of
Priam, Troy's graybeard king. stole
away the wife of Menelaus. king Of
Sparta, and the thousand ships of tht
Greeks sailed TO avenge the theft anC
regain the fair Helen. The grea'
high-prowed ships were drawn high
on the beach OF sacred Ilium. and thu
Greeks. with their hero Achilles an(
their crafty leader Ulysses, began tn,
long 1O-year siege of the great walled
city Of the Trojans.
All the action of the Had tool
place within Sound Of the guns Of tn,
great fleet now battering at the dc
lenses of the D~ardanelles. But eve
p from its association with IT,
Iliad, the region is immortalized i
history. The strait of the Dardane
les gets it's name from the ancien
Dardanians. who peopled. "sacre
'N' IL Ody-UdWH Oh MS
tory.
The Rivers Simois and Scamande
joined their steams in historic day.
and in h fork thus formed. upon tn
nil OF Hissarlik, a village was raise
In n Stone Age, at least 5000 veal
ago., walled with ude stone block
cemented with mud. Upon the ruiz
Of this village rose still another tow
in the beginning of the age OF m,
tails. this second Guarded with MOL
or brick laid on a foundation of ston
The remains of these two towns We,
discovered in 1873 by the famo,
Schlieman, who v a gre:
quantity of solid gold vessels. whie
led him at first to believe that ]
had hit upon the remains of Tro
The famous city Of the Iliad W:
founded many centuries later, pro
ably by ~Phrygians. 1t was about Is,
Is. c., according to the historians. tn
the greater citadel immortalized
Homer began to rise upon the found
e ton of earlier ages.
Ancient Troy was girded by walls
VIDE circuit. and upOn the Hill of HI
eariik within the encircling walls ro
terrace after terrace of lofty bull
ings.
The city towers were pierced
Tour gates. The principal one, on I
south east side, was possibly t
oSacah Sdle OF the Illad. 1t W
ranked by a tall and strong wat
tower. From this tower and I
walls of the city the women and
men watched their heroes battle w
the followers of Agameml. on, TX
of Men,"
Many C~OlOnizers.
Troy never regained its anci
prestige after the sack by the Argi,
/. in o the year 1850 B. c. Sub
Quentl the c%onQuering Greeks h,
a town there, and successfully
=. same site was occupied by .Alexa,
rine and Graeco-Roman stronghold