History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . D Palace of Tiryns. (After Luck- enbach) Unlike the Cretan palaces this dwelling ofan .-Egean prince is massively fortified. A ris-ing road (A) leads up to the main gate (/?),where the great walls are double. An assault-ing party bearing their shields on the left armmust here (C, D) march with the exposed rightside toward the city. By the gate (E) the visi-tor arrives in the large court (F) on which thepalace faces. The main entrance of the pal-ace (G) leads to its forecourt (//), where theexcavators found the
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . D Palace of Tiryns. (After Luck- enbach) Unlike the Cretan palaces this dwelling ofan .-Egean prince is massively fortified. A ris-ing road (A) leads up to the main gate (/?),where the great walls are double. An assault-ing party bearing their shields on the left armmust here (C, D) march with the exposed rightside toward the city. By the gate (E) the visi-tor arrives in the large court (F) on which thepalace faces. The main entrance of the pal-ace (G) leads to its forecourt (//), where theexcavators found the place of the householdaltar of the king (§ 145). Behind the forecourt(//) is the main hall of the palace (/). Thiswas the earliest castle in Europe with outerwallsof stone. The villages of the common peopleclustered about the foot of the castle hill. Thewhole formed the nucleus of a city-state (§ 137)in the plain of Argos (see plate, p. 84) 84 History of Europe several times destroyed (Fig. 33),flourish, until it finally controlledtent in northwestern Asia Minor. ,«••%?. Fig. 32, The Main Entrance of THE Castle of Mycen^, called THE Lion Gate A good example of the heavy stonemasonry of the two cities of tlie /EgeanGrand Age, Tiryns and Mycenae, builton the plain of Argos (plate, p. 84,and map, p. 90). Above the gate is alarge triangular relief showing twolions grouped on either side of a cen-tral column, the whole doubtless form-ing the emblem of the city or the arms of its kings it was rebuilt and continued toa kingdom of considerable ex-About 1500 the splendidand cultivated city of Troy(Fig. 33) was a powerfulstronghold which had grownup as a northern rival of thatflourishing Cnossus we haveseen in the south. 128. Asia Minor and theHittites. Inland from Troyand the ^gean world, acrossthe far-stretching hills andmountains of Asia Minor,were the settlements of a greatgroup of white peoples whowere kindred of the j9igeansin civilization, though not inblood. We call
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