Schliemann, Heinrich: Troy and its remains: a narrative of researches and discoveries made on the site of Illium, and in the Trojan Plain (London, 1875)

WINDS.

XERXES.

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wheel-shaped, with simple patterns,
187 ; just below the surface, 207 ; on
site of the Temple, 230; important
distinction between plain and de-
corated, 232 ; various types, 255,
264; new types, 268, 269, 286; ex-
treme fineness of engravings on, 284.

Winds, cold north, Homer's " blasts of
Boreas," 224, 225.

"Windy" (^«fideo-<ra), fit epithet of
Ilium, 185.

Wooden Ilium, built by the fourth
settlers ; its burnt debris, 29.

Works, the, difficulties of, 61, 96 ; cost
of, 98, 204 ; dangers, and engineering
expedients, 115, 116, 131, 132; nar-
row escape of six men, 132 ; fall of
an earth-wall, 147, 148 ; plan of a

trench through the whole hill, 148 ;
cost of, 184, 185 ; for security during
the winter, 221 ; progress of, at S. E.
corner, 239 ; difficulties of excava-
tion of the Tower, 249 ; progress of,
259; further excavations on north
side, 346, 347-

Workmen, number of, 64; new, 98 ;
increase of, 184, 233; attempt forgery,
194; mode of naming them, 194 ;
want of, 225, 226.

Writing, used at Troy long before
Homer (Appendix), 369, foil. ; an-
swer to objections, 371.

X.

Xerxes, sacrifices at Ilium, 12, 61, 174.

ERRATUM.

Page 345.—After the third paragraph, ending " from all quarters," in-
sert the following :—

" Troy had therefore no separate Acropolis ; but as one was neces-
sary for the great deeds of the Iliad, it was added by the poetical
invention of Homer, and called by him Pergamus, a word of quite
unknown derivation."

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