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Updated: May 18, 2025
For a long, long time the people had not forgotten their dead chiefs. Every year they had sacrificed oxen to them. They had set up gravestones for them, and after a while they had heaped great mounds over their graves. That was a wonderful old world at Mycenae. The king's palace sat on a hill.
The shaft- graves of Mycenae contained, besides other things, a rich treasure of gold objects masks, drinking-cups, diadems, ear-rings, finger-rings, and so on, also several silver vases. Most of the gold objects must be passed over, interesting though many of them are.
In the late seventies of the last century, Schliemann visited the ruins of Mycenae, ruins which were so old that Roman guide-books marvelled at their antiquity.
The Minoan columns taper downwards instead of upwards, an utterly unconstructional form, and though in the palace of Knossos and at Tiryns columns of this shape appear to have been used to carry lintels, the stone columns on either side of the entrance to the Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae were used for decorative and not for structural purposes.
Some implements of stone, the mighty walls of Tiryns, Mycenae, and many another ancient citadel, four "treasuries," as they were often called, at Mycenae and one at the Boeotian Orchomenus these made up pretty nearly the total of the visible relics of that early time. To-day the case is far different.
Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and brother of the injured Menelaus, was chosen commander-in-chief. Achilles was their most illustrious warrior.
'Where is Troy and Mycenae, and Thebes and Delos, and Persepolis and Agrigentum? continued my father, taking up his book of post-roads, which he had laid down. 'What is become, brother Toby, of Nineveh and Babylon, of Cizicum and Mitylenae? Aegina was behind me, Megara was before, Pyraeus on the right hand, Corinth on the left. What flourishing towns now prostrate upon the earth!
He came once to Mycenae, not as an enemy but as a guest, in company with Polynices to recruit his forces, for they were levying war against the strong city of Thebes, and prayed our people for a body of picked men to help them. The men of Mycenae were willing to let them have one, but Jove dissuaded them by showing them unfavourable omens. Tydeus, therefore, and Polynices went their way.
Atreus was his mother's brother; and to the hands of his relation, who had left his father on account of the death of Chrysippus, Eurystheus, when he set out on his expedition, had committed Mycenae and the government.
Tsountas found twenty arrow-heads of bronze, ten in each bundle, in a Mycenaean chamber tomb. Messrs. Tsountas and Manatt say, "In the Acropolis graves at Mycenae... the spear-heads were but few... arrow-heads, on the contrary, are comparatively abundant." What other purpose could it have served?
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