: Mycenæ: a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns by Schliemann Heinrich Gladstone W E William Ewart Author Of Introduction Etc - Mycenae (Extinct city); Tiryns (Extinct city)

@FreeBooks

Posted in: #FreeBooks #FreeBooksIndia #FreeBooksApp #gg

Vote Up Vote Down   0 Reactions

Login to give Reaction!

Dr. Schliemann's Account of a Tomb at Spata, in Attica " xli

The Fall of Mycenae, as described by Diodorus Siculus " xlviii

Table of French and English Measures " lviii

EXCAVATIONS AT TIRYNS.

NOTE A.--"HERA BO?PIS" 19

TOPOGRAPHY OF MYCENAE.

GATE OF THE LIONS AND TREASURY OF ATREUS.

HISTORY OF MYCENAE AND THE FAMILY OF PELOPS.

THE SEPULCHRES OF AGAMEMNON AND HIS COMPANIONS.

Traditional foundation of Mycenae by Perseus--His dynasty succeeded by the Pelopids--The legend of their crimes unknown to Homer and Hesiod--The Homeric story of Agamemnon's murder by AEgisthus and Clytemnestra, avenged by Orestes--Cycle of crimes devised by the later bards--Dominion of Agamemnon--End of the Dynasty at Mycenae with AEgisthus--Orestes and his sons--The Dorian invasion--Part taken by Mycenae in the Persian wars--The Argives besiege and take Mycenae--The walls of the citadel preserved from religious reverence--Homeric epithets of Mycenae--Its "abundance of gold" confirmed by Thucydides--The Treasuries of the Pelopids mentioned by Pausanias--Treasury at the Heraeum, near Mycenae--Probable existence of another Treasury at Mycenae.

THE LIONS' GATE AND THE AGORA.

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--Fragment of a marble frieze--Threshold of the Lions' Gate--The great double row of parallel slabs, probably not of a remote antiquity--The Acropolis only partly accessible to chariots--The gateway double, like the Scaean Gate at Troy--Corridors of Cyclopean house-walls--Hera-idols and arrow-heads of bronze and iron--Door-keeper's lodge--Retaining walls--Tower of the Acropolis resting on a massive wall--The double circle of slabs formed the enclosure of the royal tombs and the Agora--Arguments in proof of this view--Objects of interest found there--A vast Cyclopean house with cisterns and water conduit, probably the ancient Royal Palace--The spring Perseia--No windows in the house--Objects of art and luxury found there--An onyx seal-ring--Vase-paintings of mail-clad warriors--Hand-made pottery in the Acropolis 118

Free books android app tbrJar TBR JAR Read Free books online gutenberg

(0)

Login to post a comment!