Professor Goodwin's Lecture.

Professor Goodwin lectured on Troy, in the Fogg Art Museum last evening, under the auspices of the Classical Club, illustrating the lecture by the latest photographs of the ruins.

Before Dr. Schliemann started his excavations in Asia Minor, said Professor Goodwin, no Troy was known of. It was said that the Greek poets set their heroes in a wonder land, and men claimed there was no evidence that Troy ever existed. The earlier chapters of the city were lost, not only in history, but in myth. Mycenx's kings were great in power and wealth and any one could have been Homer's Agamemnon. Indeed modern scholars doubted the site assigned to Troy. In northwestern Asia Minor was a hill on which Illium, a city which asserted itself to be Homer's City, must have stood; but no ruins were there visible except those of a Roman Illium.

But in 1873, Dr. Schliemann made a great discovery. Upon excavating the so-called hill of Troy, he found it to be a heap of walls, houses and rubbish, for fully half its height. On a hill which was originally sixty feet high, nine different settlements had been built; city upon city. The second city was built high walled upon the first, and was followed by the third, fourth, and fifth, in nearly the same limits, until the builders of the sixth city extended bounds and founded Troy. On Troy were built two unimportant Greek cities and, finally, in the time of Augustus, the Romans erected a temple to Minerva upon all. To do this they levelled the top of the hill and dug deep into the ruins for foundations.

Dr. Schliemann began his excavations by digging a trench from the north through the hill. He found that Troy was surrounded by high walls of stone, surmounted by sun-dried bricks. The bricks were slabs, one foot and a half by four inches, held in place by uprights and cross-beams of wood. Every fourth course of bricks was replaced by a cross beam.

Six cities were discovered by Dr. Schliemann before his death brought to an end what was thought to be the last chapter in the re-discovery of Troy.

However, Dr. Doerpfeld continued the work of excavation and found three more cities. Dr. Schliemann in his investigations had overlooked the shell which had been left in excavating the mound. This was dug into by Dr. Doerpfeld and the other cities disclosed. These were built in the years from 3000 B. C. down to the time of Augustus.