This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...the walls. Dr. Schliemann, in the little work1 which gives an account of his first researches, had as early as 1869 expressed his opinion that those "walls" of Pausanias did not refer, as had hitherto been supposed, to the enclosure of the lower city, but to the fortification wall of the citadel. He undertook his ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...the walls. Dr. Schliemann, in the little work1 which gives an account of his first researches, had as early as 1869 expressed his opinion that those "walls" of Pausanias did not refer, as had hitherto been supposed, to the enclosure of the lower city, but to the fortification wall of the citadel. He undertook his excavations at Mycenae solely with the object of discovering the five graves mentioned by Pausanias. When during the first months of the work five graves, apparently belonging to a simultaneous burial, came to light, revealing a wealth and splendour such as could only have been displayed by a kingly race, Dr. Schliemann's interpretation of the ancient passage seemed indeed to receive a dazzling confirmation. Critical German philologists might smile at the notion that Agamemnon had been found bodily with sword and sceptre, but the world at large accepted the discovery with an enthusiasm which found a lasting monument in Mr. Gladstone's preface to Dr. Schliemann's Mycencc. In order to be able to form an independent opinion on this point, we must subject the arguments on which Dr. Schliemann builds his hypothesis to a close investigation. They fall under two heads--the manner of the burial, and the passage in Pausanias. No one has ever actually admitted with Dr. Schliemann the simultaneous interment of the bodies. Yet every one believed that the graves had been blocked up after the burial, and also admitted that a frequent reopening was improbable, especially as Dr. Schliemann thought the later disturbance and partial plundering of one corpse had left its traces. Only a short while ago Dr. 1 Archaol. Farschungen. Ithuka, dcr Pcloponncs a. Tmja, 1869. Dorpfeld, whose loyal collaboration with Dr. Schliemann has enriched science with such great...
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