On Some Disputed Questions of Ancient GeographyJohn Murray, 1857 - 128 էջ |
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... Troy of Homer is , that the Ghiumbrek river was the Simoeis , and that the Scamander was the river which , rising in the highest and most distant summit of Ida , is now called the Mendére . The stream , therefore , which rises at those ...
... Troy of Homer is , that the Ghiumbrek river was the Simoeis , and that the Scamander was the river which , rising in the highest and most distant summit of Ida , is now called the Mendére . The stream , therefore , which rises at those ...
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... Troy ; when its true position had become an archæological inquiry among the learned of the Troad itself , it would be absurd to suppose that the people of New Ilium could have allowed of any doubt as to the identity of their site with ...
... Troy ; when its true position had become an archæological inquiry among the learned of the Troad itself , it would be absurd to suppose that the people of New Ilium could have allowed of any doubt as to the identity of their site with ...
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... Troy of Priam . L. s . asserts that " no ancient author of Greece or Rome ever doubted the identity of Old and New Ilium until the time of Demetrius of Scepsis and Strabo , who adopted his views . " So far is this from being correct ...
... Troy of Priam . L. s . asserts that " no ancient author of Greece or Rome ever doubted the identity of Old and New Ilium until the time of Demetrius of Scepsis and Strabo , who adopted his views . " So far is this from being correct ...
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... Troy of Homer became a subject of inquiry . A learned lady of Alexandria , named Hestiæa , was the first , as far as we know , who questioned the claim of the Ilienses . She found the same difficulty in acceding to it which is so ...
... Troy of Homer became a subject of inquiry . A learned lady of Alexandria , named Hestiæa , was the first , as far as we know , who questioned the claim of the Ilienses . She found the same difficulty in acceding to it which is so ...
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... Troy at Bunár- bashi are here so clearly described , that the question naturally arises , How happens it that Demetrius has taken no notice of those copious springs which now give name to Bunárbashi , which accord so well with Homer's ...
... Troy at Bunár- bashi are here so clearly described , that the question naturally arises , How happens it that Demetrius has taken no notice of those copious springs which now give name to Bunárbashi , which accord so well with Homer's ...
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