Category: History - Ancient
Situation of the City--Description by Pausanias--Cyclopean Walls: meaning of the epithet--The Quarry--The rock of Tiryns and its bordering Wall--Galleries, Gate, and Tower--Walls and Terraces of the Acropolis--Mythical traditions and History of Tiryns--Its destruction by the A...
Discovery and description of another tomb in the Acropolis outside the Agora--Its Cyclopean masonry like that of the five sepulchres--The golden trinkets of this tomb--Double-ha...
32. CHAPTER VIII.Further search within the Agora, without the guide of tombstones--Discovery of an altar of Cyclopean masonry, over the centre of the great _Fourth Tomb_, containing the bodies o...
31. CHAPTER VII.Discovery of the _Tomb_ indicated by the three sculptured _stêlæ_--Curious gold-covered buttons, objects of ivory, baked clay, gold, glass, bronze, &c.--Pottery, both wheel and...
33. CHAPTER IX.At length again a guard and watchfire on the Acropolis of Mycenæ--Exploration of the _Fifth Tomb_--Its sepulchral _stêlæ_--The tomb described; containing only one body--Golden d...
26. CHAPTER III.Traditional foundation of Mycenæ by Perseus--His dynasty succeeded by the Pelopids--The legend of their crimes unknown to Homer and Hesiod--The Homeric story of Agamemnon's murd...
28. CHAPTER IV.Wages and worth of labour at Mycenæ--The double circle of slabs--Two more sculptured _stêlæ_--Unsculptured _stêlæ_--Ashes and bones, probably of sacrifices--Fragments of other s...
23. CHAPTER I.Situation of the City--Description by Pausanias--Cyclopean Walls: meaning of the epithet--The Quarry--The rock of Tiryns and its bordering Wall--Galleries, Gate, and Tower--Wall...
29. CHAPTER V.The Treasury excavated by Mrs. Schliemann--Older and less sumptuous than that of Atreus--The entrance, its ornaments--Archaic pottery found in the passage--Necklace beads--Fragm...
34. CHAPTER X.Discussion of the identity of the five tombs with those mentioned by Pausanias as the tombs of Agamemnon and his companions--Opinions of scholars about the Trojan War--The ancie...
25. Chapter V.).Over the space of about a square mile to the west-south-west and south of this Acropolis, and exactly between the aforesaid deep ravines, extended the Lower City,[132] the site...
24. CHAPTER II.The road from Argos to Mycenæ--The Plain of Argos: its rivers and hills, horses and vegetation--Myth regarding its arid nature--Swamps in the southern part; and fable of the Ler...
30. CHAPTER VI.Further excavations of Mrs. Schliemann's Treasury--The _dromos_, doorway, and threshold--Objects found there--Hera-idols--Cyclopean water-conduits and cisterns in the Acropolis-...
11. CHAPTER XI.Discovery and description of another tomb in the Acropolis outside the Agora--Its Cyclopean masonry like that of the five sepulchres--The golden trinkets of this tomb--Double-ha...
19. CHAPTER VIII.--SEPULCHRE IV.18. CHAPTER VII.--SEPULCHRES I. II. III.[268. CHAPTER VIII.Further search within the Agora, without the guide of tombstones--Discovery of an altar of Cyclopean masonry, over the centre of the great _Fourth Tomb_, containing the bodies o...
22. CHAPTER XI.--TOMB SOUTH OF THE AGORA.[287. CHAPTER VII.Discovery of the _Tomb_ indicated by the three sculptured _stêlæ_--Curious gold-covered buttons, objects of ivory, baked clay, gold, glass, bronze, &c.--Pottery, both wheel and...
20. CHAPTER IX.--SEPULCHRE I.[2727. Chapter II. p. 51."'A little way removed, the heralds slew A sturdy ox, and now beneath an oak Prepared the feast; while women mixed, hard by, White barley porridge for the labourers' meal."
9. CHAPTER IX.At length again a guard and watchfire on the Acropolis of Mycenæ--Exploration of the _Fifth Tomb_--Its sepulchral _stêlæ_--The tomb described; containing only one body--Golden d...
10. CHAPTER X.Discussion of the identity of the five tombs with those mentioned by Pausanias as the tombs of Agamemnon and his companions--Opinions of scholars about the Trojan War--The ancie...
14. CHAPTER III.--MYCENÆ.15. CHAPTER IV.--MYCENÆ.3. CHAPTER III.Traditional foundation of Mycenæ by Perseus--His dynasty succeeded by the Pelopids--The legend of their crimes unknown to Homer and Hesiod--The Homeric story of Agamemnon's murd...
1. CHAPTER I.Situation of the City--Description by Pausanias--Cyclopean Walls: meaning of the epithet--The Quarry--The rock of Tiryns and its bordering Wall--Galleries, Gate, and Tower--Wall...
4. CHAPTER IV.Wages and worth of labour at Mycenæ--The double circle of slabs--Two more sculptured _stêlæ_--Unsculptured _stêlæ_--Ashes and bones, probably of sacrifices--Fragments of other s...
5. CHAPTER V.The Treasury excavated by Mrs. Schliemann--Older and less sumptuous than that of Atreus--The entrance, its ornaments--Archaic pottery found in the passage--Necklace beads--Fragm...
2. CHAPTER II.The road from Argos to Mycenæ--The Plain of Argos: its rivers and hills, horses and vegetation--Myth regarding its arid nature--Swamps in the southern part; and fable of the Ler...
6. CHAPTER VI.Further excavations of Mrs. Schliemann's Treasury--The _dromos_, doorway, and threshold--Objects found there--Hera-idols--Cyclopean water-conduits and cisterns in the Acropolis-...
16. CHAPTER V.--MYCENÆ.13. CHAPTER II.--MYCENÆ.17. CHAPTER VI.--MYCENÆ.12. CHAPTER I.--TIRYNS.21. CHAPTER X.--THE ROYAL TOMBS.