The picture above and most of the other photographs in this essay are taken from a frieze in grayish pock-marked sandstone stored in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The frieze, dating from the early Fourth Century B. C., was discovered a century ago on the walls of a tomb in Gjolbaschi, on modern-day Turkey's Mediterranean coast. Because it is too large for convenient display—its two superimposed rows of low-relief carvings total 600 feet in length—it is shown only on request, and it has rarely been photographed and even ndore rarely published. It is the most monumental attempt to depict the mighty deeds of the warriors who fought at the siege of Troy, ancient Ilion that Homer sings of in the Iliad. Its many panels also contain a scene of the homecoming of Odysseus which Homer recounts in the Odyssey. Heightening the spell that Homer's poems still weave, these stories in stone give visual form to major episodes from the two epics.
TROJAN TROOPS ON GUARD stand atop the walls of their city. Twice in the course of frenzied struggles. Creek warriors reached the walls, only to be frustrated by the gods, who said it was not time for Troy to fall
TROY’S ANCIENT BATTLEMENTS Still Stand today. The great German pioneer of archeology, Heinrich Schliemann, discovered the site in the 1870s, and excavations were completed by a University of Cincinnati team.
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