Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . badly;: he hadnothing but his own sense to guide him, and modernarchaeological training did not then exist. But he didwhat nobody had thought of doing before, and theresult was something that nobody had expected. Withthe excavation of Troy this volume has no direct con-cern : it belongs to the archaeology of Asia Minor, notof Greece. With Schliemann, we pass on to his results were really startling, and attractedmuch more attention than the Trojan relics, whichwere after all not to be brought into connexi
Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . badly;: he hadnothing but his own sense to guide him, and modernarchaeological training did not then exist. But he didwhat nobody had thought of doing before, and theresult was something that nobody had expected. Withthe excavation of Troy this volume has no direct con-cern : it belongs to the archaeology of Asia Minor, notof Greece. With Schliemann, we pass on to his results were really startling, and attractedmuch more attention than the Trojan relics, whichwere after all not to be brought into connexion withanything Greek. But at Mycenae in 1878 Schliemannreally did for a while seem to have, as he himself be-lieved, disinterred Agamemnon, Klytaimnestra, and allthe court of the golden Atridae. Commotion is theonly word that can describe the state of the scholarlymind at the discovery—commotion, and with manyalmost angry scepticism. The things were Byzantine ; PLATE II ^1 lysiMgi B^^^^K^^ KH-^JBP^ . ^Bii ^rir^^^k .S^ ^^B[ ?ft K t5^i*^Hcl ^^M t^^j^^mk i ffll 13 V^M in. THE EXCAVATIONS 9 they were treasure buried by marauding Avars andHeruli; and so on. To students of European pre-history the fact that the new discoveries belonged tothe Bronze Age was quite enough to give them theirproper place in time, but some classical scholars, whowere still under the impression that the Greeks of thefifth century used bronze swords, were not so easilyadaptable. Others, however, realized the real im-portance of the finds at once, and opinion of realweight and importance soon crystallized into the view,which has been entirely justified by the Cretan dis-coveries, that, while not belonging to the Homericperiod, the new discoveries were relics of a pre-Homeric culture of which reminiscences are seen in thepoems ; that they belonged, in fact, to the Heroic Age. ? It had always been the opinion of the Greeks that theruins of Mycenae and Tiryns belonged to the HeroicAge. The Lion Gate, never
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