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THE MYCENAEAN TROY
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peoples on the farther shores of the Aegean. Thus the necessary condi-
tions of the Iliad are met.
But if old objections are thus removed, a new difficulty confronts us.
The masonry of the walls and houses of the Sixth City is so advanced in
comparison with that of the Argive fortresses that one finds it hard to
believe that this city was destroyed while Mycenae still flourished. If
this masonry be actually younger than that of .Mycenae, then we must
find Homer guilty of an anachronism or deny that the Sixth City is the
Ilios of his song. But we may leave this problem to be cleared up, as it
doubtless will be, when Dr. Dorpfeld and his collaborators give us their
final work on the subject.1
1 Dr. Dorpfeld has taken up this point in his introduction to the present work
(page xxvii.).
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peoples on the farther shores of the Aegean. Thus the necessary condi-
tions of the Iliad are met.
But if old objections are thus removed, a new difficulty confronts us.
The masonry of the walls and houses of the Sixth City is so advanced in
comparison with that of the Argive fortresses that one finds it hard to
believe that this city was destroyed while Mycenae still flourished. If
this masonry be actually younger than that of .Mycenae, then we must
find Homer guilty of an anachronism or deny that the Sixth City is the
Ilios of his song. But we may leave this problem to be cleared up, as it
doubtless will be, when Dr. Dorpfeld and his collaborators give us their
final work on the subject.1
1 Dr. Dorpfeld has taken up this point in his introduction to the present work
(page xxvii.).