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Researches in the highlands of Turkey (1869)
Researches in the highlands of Turkey - 1869 Author:Henry Fanshawe Tozer Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THE CITY AND PLAIN OF TROY. The Springs at Bunarbashi — Mode of treating the Subject — Accuracy of Homeric epithets and descriptions — Topograp... more »hy of the Iliad—The Springs near Troy—Correspondence with those at Bunarbashi—The Bali-dagh— Its Tumuli — View from it — Floods of the Mendere — Site of Troy — The Ileian Plain — Excavations on the Bali-dagh — Batieia — Atchi-keui—The Hanai-Tepe — Ilium Novum — Return to the Dardanelles. JUST before reaching'the village of Bunarbashi, we once more passed the springs from which its name, " the Head of the Waters," is derived. The springs themselves are called Kirke Gheuz, or "the Forty Eyes." As these have been the most important point in Homeric topo- . graphy, ever since their discovery by Lechevalier towards the end of the last century, and as the question of the site of the city of Troy depends in no slight degree upon them, I propose that we should examine them with some care, and make them a starting-point from which to notice the principal objects and features of the country that seem to correspond to those which Homer describes. The plain of Troy has been a battle-field, not only of heroes, but of scholars and geographers, and the works which have been written on the subject form a literature to themselves. In this discussion, and the investigation of minute details which it involves, I do not wish to entangle my readers, but will confine myself for the present to some of the most general conclusions, referring those who are interested in the question to theAppendix at the end of Volume II.1 But, before entering on the subject at all, it is necessary to premise a few The Plain of Troy. remarks on the way in which the Homeric topography 'Ought to be treated. In the first place, it is well to remember that...« less