Photo by H. G. Dwight 



gre;e;k types at a church festival in 



the; MARMORA 



The islands and villages of the Marmora are 

 today as they always have been — more Greek 

 than anj'thing else. 



else golden fleece and then write undy- 

 ing accounts of their heroic buccaneer- 

 ing would not halt long for a pretext to 

 attack, nor scruple to gild their cupidity 

 b}'' means of a poetic stor}^ 



Oh, well, we have the story, which is 

 its own excuse for being ; so never mind 

 about the history or its rationale. We 

 prefer to believe in Helen as beauty per- 

 sonified rather than as greed personified, 

 regardless of the evidence. Hence her 

 future is secure as long as men are what 

 they are, and hence also the eternal charm 

 and freshness of the story. The assured 

 immortality of the Iliad lies in this : That 

 two nations engaged in a heroic struggle 

 with each other, not for gain, not to re- 

 assert the rights of Menelaus, but for 

 that which all men agreed was the most 

 beautiful object in the world — in a word, 

 for the principle of beauty itself. 



Photo by A. C. Barler 

 THE TOMB OF AGAMEMNON AT MYCEN.F, 

 GREECE 



NOTES ON TROY 



It was under Roman rule that Ilium, 

 the ninth city built on the site of Troy, 

 reached the height of its splendor and 

 importance. It is evident that the Ro- 

 mans thoroughly believed the legend that 

 the fleeing ^^neas, after many wander- 

 ings, finally landed in Latium and became 

 the lineal ancestor of the kings and 

 founders of Rome. 



What Jerusalem and J\Iecca are today 

 to those of the Christian and IMoham- 

 medan faiths, so once was Ilium to the 

 inhabitants of Rome. In other words, 

 Troy was the mother of Rome, in their 

 belief, and the classic citadel of Homeric 

 fame became an object of veneration to 

 every true Roman and something to 

 which to make a pilgrimage before he 

 died. This belief is abundantly sup- 

 ported bv the fact that Ilium in turn was 

 visited by Sulla, C?esar, Hadrian, Cara- 



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