Note 716 — Chapter XI · THE SWORD IN ANCIENT GREECE: HOMER; HESIOD AND HERODOTUS: MYCENÆ.
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The earliest date of the famous siege is b.c. 1370 (Justin, like the Arundelian marbles, gives b.c. 1184), and the latest is b.c. 724–636. In Troy and its Remains, we find (p. 123) that the age proposed for the founding of the city is b.c. 1400; that the war took place after the reigns of six kings (p. 27), say two centuries, or in b.c. 1200; and that Homer lived 200 years after the destruction of the city (p. 91), or in b.c. 1000. Thus Herodotus and Dr. Schliemann do not agree; but what possible agreement can there be upon such a subject?