. Mycenaean Troy, based on Dörpfeld's excavations in the sixth of the nine buried cities at Hissarlik. her. Afriendly settlement seems to have been reached, theAchaeans remaining masters of the upper countrywithout expelling the Danaans. According to legend, Mycenae was founded by Per-seus, a descendant of Danaiis of Tiryns, and his de-scendants ruled in INIycenae until the time of Eurj^s-theus; then the sovereignty passed to Atreus and Thy-estes—i. e., to the Achaeans. From the fact that the citadel at Mycenae showstwo periods of construction—an older, in which thewall had an entrance simila
. Mycenaean Troy, based on Dörpfeld's excavations in the sixth of the nine buried cities at Hissarlik. her. Afriendly settlement seems to have been reached, theAchaeans remaining masters of the upper countrywithout expelling the Danaans. According to legend, Mycenae was founded by Per-seus, a descendant of Danaiis of Tiryns, and his de-scendants ruled in INIycenae until the time of Eurj^s-theus; then the sovereignty passed to Atreus and Thy-estes—i. e., to the Achaeans. From the fact that the citadel at Mycenae showstwo periods of construction—an older, in which thewall had an entrance similar to that of Tiryns, and alater, in which the citadel was extended and the LionsGate was built—Tsountas Infers that the earlier pe-riod, to which must be assigned the shaft-gra^-es inthe so-called circle of graves on the acropolis, corre-sponded to the founding by Perseus, and that thelater, with the beehive tombs situated outside the ^ Mvicrjvahi/;no/tT(afinr^ pp. 239-245; Tsoun-tas and Manatt, pp. 341 ff. ^Cf. Harrington and Tolman, Greek and Roman IMytlioIa-gy, p. (100) THE MYCENAEAN AGE AND HOMEEIC POEMS 101 citadel, corresponded to the rule of the A people very closelj^ related to the Danaans werethe Minyans, who were bearers of Mycenaean civili-zation and were the founders of Orchomenos, onLake Copais. The influence of this race is seen notonly in Boeotia, but also in Laconia, on the island ofThera, and at Thoricus in Attica. Heinrich sug2:eststhat the names jVIiuyas and INIinos show somethingmore than an accidental similarity. In that case theremains of Mycenaean civilization which have beenfound, as we have seen, in such great abundance inCrete would bring that island into the circle of coun-tries inhaliited by the ^ The genuine Mycenaean citadel, Gha, on Lake Co-pais, is quite similar in construction to Tiryns whichwas originally surrounded by swamps. It stands inclosest relation to the draining of Lake Copais by th
Size: 1412px × 1770px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublishernewyo, bookyear1903
