. The Open court . mas to Love and the Home, and as to life generally. It is a fact, also, that the Windy Citadel where Homer localizedhis story existed as he represented it, and from Schliemanns discov-eries there we can see the walls, the pottery, the jewelry and many IIOMIiR AND THE PROPHETS. 223 of the articles of daily interest in that prehistoric time. FromSchliemanns discoveries at Mycenae, we believe that Agamemnonalso was historic, and that he suffered such a death as Homer local traditions at Mycenae and the traditions that ran throughhistory pointed Dr. Schliemann the way
. The Open court . mas to Love and the Home, and as to life generally. It is a fact, also, that the Windy Citadel where Homer localizedhis story existed as he represented it, and from Schliemanns discov-eries there we can see the walls, the pottery, the jewelry and many IIOMIiR AND THE PROPHETS. 223 of the articles of daily interest in that prehistoric time. FromSchliemanns discoveries at Mycenae, we believe that Agamemnonalso was historic, and that he suffered such a death as Homer local traditions at Mycenae and the traditions that ran throughhistory pointed Dr. Schliemann the way to Agamemnons tomb, andwhat he found in the tombs that he unearthed at Mycenae was morethan enough to justify the traditions that had lingered through thecenturies. It is reasonable to believe also that a king of a neighbor-ing island found his wife faithful to him when he returned fromthe war after long wanderings, thanks to the clever device she hadused to put suitors off, and that she became as a proverb for her. ROCK SCULPTURES OF AUCHNABREACH, Sir. J. Lubbock and Sir J. Y. Simpson. wifely fidelity. Such a death as Agamemnons and such a deviceas Penelopes are distinctive, hard for a story-teller to invent, andmore likely than not to have happened in such ancient, unsettledtimes and under such circumstances as the war brought about. But the King whose body lay buried so richly at Mycenae untilhis tomb was opened by Schliemann cannot have been called Aga-memnon during his life, and his Queen cannot have been calledClytemnestra when he married her, for these names are allegoricaland apply to the events of their later life—Agamemnon can havebeen called by that name only after his death: 224 THE OlKN COURT. Clytemnestra, kXvtw iivqcnip, I give ear to a suitor; Agamemnon, ayajuo?, a fatal marriage, a marriage that is nomarriage. Clytemnestra gave ear to her suitor, Aegisthus, and she madeAgamemnons a fatal marriage by killing him. The poet does noteven mention th
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