Mycenae - A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries At Mycenae and Tiryns

Klappentext Heinrich Schliemann's account of his archaeological excavations which revealed the existence of the ancient Greek cities of Mycenae and Tiryns. Zusammenfassung Mycenae (1878) is the account of Heinrich Schliemann's famous archaeological excavations of the lost Greek cities of Mycenae and Tiryns! which began in 1876! and which revealed that the two cities had a historical reality outside Homeric epic. The volume is generously illustrated with images of artefacts! maps and charts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface W. E. Gladstone; Dr. Schliemann's account of a tomb at Spata, in Attica; The Fall of Mycenae, as described by Diodorus Siculus; Table of French and English measures; List of illustrations; 1. Excavations at Tiryns; 2. Topography of Mycenae. Gate of the Lions and Treasury of Atreus; 3. History of Mycenae and the family of Pelops. The Sepulchres of Agamemnon and his companions; 4. Excavations in the citadel of Mycenae continued; 5. Excavations in and near the Acropolis continued. The Lions' Gate and the Agora; 6. The Second Great Treasury, Acropolis, and Cyclopean remains in the neighbourhood of Mycenae; 7. The first, second, and third tombs in the Acropolis; 8. The fourth tomb in the Acropolis of Mycenae; 9. The fifth sepulchre, and the first again; 10. Connection of the five tombs with the royal house of Pelops, and date of the Agora; 11. Treasure of the tomb south of the Agora; Analysis of Mycenaean metals; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Schliemann Heinrich, Heinrich Schliemann
• Assisted by: W. E. Gladstone (Foreword)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2010
• EAN: 9781108016926
• ISBN: 978-1-108-01692-6
• No. of pages: 516
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient World, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology