(—) Kum Kale. of the very mouth of the Somoiea ("). Part of the current coast did not exist during the Groyan War: it is made up of alluvial sand and earth flowing by the river; it is necessary to go about half a mile further along the land in order to determine the location of the Greek camp and trench. I had with me Imada and Travel to the Chevalier Troade. With such guidebooks it would be unforgivable Chevalier describes everything in Brno in such a way that it seems like you live among the heroes” praised by Omir, and you see the battles that he spoke about. The valley stretching out in front of me, between the hillock at Kume-Kale and the banks of Imvris, is definitely the place where the Greek Fleet stood, the pier was reliable and it was convenient. the then custom was to pull ships ashore. The trench, built in front of them, protected them: it rested with its right flank on the heights that bordered the valley on this side and bordered with the Sigean Cape; Riveysky Cape. A trench and front garden surrounded the camp. To his right were the tombs of Achilles and Patroclus: I see them! Here are the mounds, meaning mpheta, and the ponyif called by their names... Grae Choiseul was tearing up the Achilles mound, and suddenly he doubted, I don’t know what. He thought that this was the mound over the tomb of Festus, the vile favorite of the monster Caracalla, who decided to honor him with a great funeral, in imitation of what Achilles did to his friend Pattroclus. But Monsieur Choiseul could have realized that Alexander Veliy made sacrifices to the tomb of Achilles and honored it with a festival, and that it was impossible for the Emperor of Caracal not to know its meaning. Having disgraced the great man, he also honored the hero’s ashes, and then, like Patroclus’s Achilles, he wanted to bury his vile friend. But Herodan specifically says that near the tomb of Achilles they only burned the evil of Festus at the stake, and his ashes were collected in a golden ark, which was later taken away by the Emperor. After this, it is clear that there is no Edpheus Festus mound, but this Achilles mound, the same one on which Alexander and then Caracalla sacrificed.
Not far away you can still see the remains of the Minervina Temple and the mound of the Antilochus Tomb. Antilochus, son of Nestor and friend of Achilles, was one of the first victims of the Trojan War. It is impossible not to recognize the river of Scamander and Simois, irrigating the valley: the first is a quiet stream, filled with abundant springs near Troy itself, and the other is a fast and noisy river; they merge, and during the Trojan War they flowed through the very camp of the Greeks. On this silt-bearing valley, dividing the Greek camp from the Trojan camp and Troy itself, all the battles between the two peoples took place. It is not difficult to find out the place where the Skeis gate was, from which the Trojans came out: this area means the springs of Scamander. This was the weakest side of the city; on the contrary, its rear part owned the entire valley, constituting, as it were, a separate height, surrounded and protected by the fast Simois and the wild, steep cliffs of Mount Idai, in some places even impregnable. This part completely corresponds to the Akropolis, or the upper city, where the Minervin Temple was built, and where they placed a wooden horse with warriors hidden in it. Hector’s tombstone is also visible here; he is not like the other TBM, which is not made of earth, like them, but is entirely made of stones. From the site of Troy you can easily see the Aisiet tomb: there the Trojans could easily observe all the movements of the Greeks. In a word, there is no place mentioned in Ilad, which I would not have recognized even in Brno from Chevalier’s description. Afterwards there is nothing left to say.