SCHLIEMANN’S DISCOVERIES AT TROY. 659 
ARCHAOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY. 
SCHLIEMANN’S DISCOVERIES AT TROY. 
JAMES MACALISTER. 
The name ef Dr. Schliemann has been so prominently before the public for 
a number of years that most persons know something of his eventful life and the 
discoveries associated with its later years. It is doubtful, however, if the mag- 
nitude of the work he has performed, and the vast importance of the results he 
has obtained, are generally understood. No one man has ever accomplished so 
much in the field of archzological research, or contributed so largely to the solu- 
tion of problems which have an undying interest for all intelligent minds. With 
an enthusiasm and a forgetfulness of self rare among men, he has devoted his 
hard-earned wealth and the prime of his manhood to the elucidation of the im- 
mortal poems that have charmed and instructed the world for three thousand 
years; and to him more than to any other man is due the feeling of certainty with 
which we can now regard these poems as historical records of a period that has 
-hitherto been regarded as purely mythical. 
It is seldom that the whole life of a man stands so closely related to the 
achievement which has brought him honor and fame as is the case with Schlie- 
mann. Born in poverty, and receiving but a limited education, he early formed 
the resolution to master the poems of Homer, and to discover the city beneath 
whose walls the battle of the /Zad took place. To find Troy was the dream of 
his boyhood—a dream which, through all the shifting scenes of his career, never 
forsook him, and to the realization of which he decided, at the age of forty-four, 
to give up the remainder of his days and the fortune he had gathered for this pur- 
jpose. While following the business which made him rich and procured him 
leisure, he kept the great aim of his life constantly in view, and fitted himself by 
the study of languages and history for the undertaking which, on retiring, he was 
ready to begin. In 1864 he relinquished commercial pursuits; and after five 
years spent in travel and in preparatory study at Paris, he repaired to the Trojan 
Plain to commence the excavations which have made him famous. With the ex- 
‘ception of the time spent at Mycenee, he has ever since pursued his researches 
there, carrying on extensive diggings at great expense, and seeking by various 
publications to make the world acquainted with the results of his labors. Alto- 
gether he has given about five years to the excavations at Troy. 
The chief purpose of Dr. Schliemann’s labors has been the verification of the 
Homeric legends concerning Troy. It was an object worthy of the noblest en- 
deavors of his enthusiastic nature. Where did the ‘‘Sacred Ilios” stand? Is 
‘Troy a myth; or was there really a city where Priam ruled, which was conquered, 
despoiled, and burned by the Grecian hosts? Was the Ten Years’ War, with its 
