. The New England magazine . and they are doubly impressive when wereflect that they have no counterpart inEuropean architecture. Their affinitiesare all eastern, and so they are a fingerpost pointing to the Asi-atic origin of the familyof Agamemnon. We passed beneaththem, through the mas-sive gateway where somany long gone genera-tions had trodden beforeus, and turned to theright, and a few stepsbrought us to the ancientagora, a public place ofMycenae. It was in oldtime surrounded by twoconcentric circles ofstone slabs, that sloped alittle backward from thecentre toward the ground,for the con
. The New England magazine . and they are doubly impressive when wereflect that they have no counterpart inEuropean architecture. Their affinitiesare all eastern, and so they are a fingerpost pointing to the Asi-atic origin of the familyof Agamemnon. We passed beneaththem, through the mas-sive gateway where somany long gone genera-tions had trodden beforeus, and turned to theright, and a few stepsbrought us to the ancientagora, a public place ofMycenae. It was in oldtime surrounded by twoconcentric circles ofstone slabs, that sloped alittle backward from thecentre toward the ground,for the convenience of thefeet of their of these slabs werestill in position, andseveral of the horizontalstone slabs that formedthe seats were where theyhad been fastened withstone tenons and socketsthree thousand years ago. The heroesof old sat on these very seats and delib-erated upon those great plans whosefame Homer embalmed. I passed within. \ Masks of the Dead. 040 A GLIMPSE AT SCHLIEMANNS DISCOVERIES IN HELLAS.
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