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New Chapters in Greek History. [Chap. V.
we may never be able to test the value of the genealogical
lists which are almost all that Greek historians and inscrip-
tions preserve to us in the way of record of their own
heroic days. But, nevertheless, we shall find that those
days are not buried in hopeless oblivion, and that there is
truth of a certain kind in Schliemann's childish belief that
the walls of Ilium have not passed into nothingness.
New Chapters in Greek History. [Chap. V.
we may never be able to test the value of the genealogical
lists which are almost all that Greek historians and inscrip-
tions preserve to us in the way of record of their own
heroic days. But, nevertheless, we shall find that those
days are not buried in hopeless oblivion, and that there is
truth of a certain kind in Schliemann's childish belief that
the walls of Ilium have not passed into nothingness.