324 HISTORY OF GREECE. These were testimonies which few persons in those ages were inclined to question, when combined with the identity of name and general locality ; nor does it seem that any one did question them until the time of Demetrius of Skepsis. Hellanikus ex- pressly described this Ilium as being the Ilium of Homer, for which assertion Strabo (or probably Demetrius, from whom the narrative seems to be copied) imputes to him very gratuitously an undue partiality towards the inhabitants of the town. 1 Hero- dotus relates, that Xerxes in his march into Greece visited the place, went up to the Pergamum of Priam, inquired with much interest into the details of the Homeric siege, made libations to the fallen heroes, and offered to the Athene of Ilium his mag- nificent sacrifice of a thousand oxen : he probably represented and believed himself to be attacking Greece as the avenger of the Priamid family. The Lacedaemonian admiral Mindarus, while his fleet lay at Abydus, went personally to Ilium to offer sacrifice to Athene, and saw from that elevated spot the battle fought between the squadron of Dorieus and the Athenians, on the shore near Rhceteium. 2 During the interval between the his left hand, f/'ie if TTJV 'IXidda yf/v ......... J A.mKOfj.ev ov 6e TOV arparoZ enl TOV 'SiKauavdpov ......... f rb Hpiu/tov TlEpya[J.ov uvEJ3r) t 1/j.epov sguv 6e, Kal TTV& 6/j.evof Keivuv iKaara, TTJ (3ovf ^iPa'af ^otif 6e ol fj,dyQi Toiaiv ijouai* i%- avro ......... "Afia ?i/i.Eprj Se iiropevETO, iv upiffTEprj (tev uirspyuv 'Poirelov no7.lv KOI 'O<j>pvvelov Kal Aapdavov, fyirep di) 'A/JyJtj o/wvpof toriv iv 6e^iy Je, Tepyr&as TevKpovf (Herod- vii. 43). Respecting Alexander (Arrian, i. 11), 'Ave/lflovra 6e if 'IXiov, ry 'Ai??/v(i Qvaat, ry 'Ifaadi, Kal TTJV TravoTT^iav TTJV avTov uvadetvai elf TQV vabv, Kal Ka&efalv uvTl TavTTjf TUV lepuv Tiva 6ir%uv ITL K TOV Tpu'iKov Ipyov au&- fieva Hal Tavra Tilyovoiv OTI ol imaainaTal l<j>epov irpd avTov if raf ftaxaf. Qvaai. ds avTbv inl TOV f3ufj.ov TOV Aidf TOV 'Epxeiov Tioyof /care^ei, prjvtv TLpLa.fj.ov irapaiTovfievov Ttf> NEOTTTOASIIOV yevet, b 6^ if avTov Ka&rJKE. The inhabitants of Ilium also showed the lyre which had belonged to Paris (Plutarch, Alexand. c. 15). Chandler, in his History of Ilium, chap. xxii. p. 89, seems to think that the place called by Herodotus the Pergamum of Priam is different from the historical Ilium. But the mention of the Eiean Athene identifies them aa the same. 1 Strabo, xiii. p. 602. 'EXAuvt/cof 61 %api6ij.Evof Toif 'Ihievffiv, olo? 6 IKELVOV ftv&oc, avvriyopel r> TTJV aiiTrjv slvai 7r67i.iv TTJV vvv Ty TOTE. Hellan- ikus had written a work called Tpu'iKa.
- Xenoph. Hellen. i. 1, 10. Skylax places Ilium twenty-five stadia, 01
