Note 261 — Chapter XXII
L. Dora Schmitz translation
This edifice, now first laid open from beneath the ashes which covered it in the burning of the city, was found by Dr. Schliemann in the very state to which, in Homer, Agamemnon threatens to reduce it: “The house of Priam blackened with fire” (Iliad, II. 414, 415):
Πρίν με κατὰ πρηνὲς βαλέειν Πριάμοιο μέλαθρον Αἰθαλόεν, πρῆσαι δὲ πυρὸς δηΐοιο θύρετρα.