Word: agamemnon
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...scene is laid in Tauris, at the grove of Diana. Agamemnon, king of the Greeks, had sought to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenie, but the goddess Diana, taking pity on her, had carried her off and installed her as a priestess in the temple at Tauris...
Mycenae, the citadel of Agamemnon, and the other strongholds of the Argive Plain, which all belong to the heroic times sung by Homer, had already fallen into ruin in the historical period. The traveller Pausanias visited them in the second century, A. D., and his description might well have been written in the first half of the present century, so exactly does it describe their condition before Schliemann and the Greek Archaelogical Society began their excavations. Today one may pass through the great gateways into the courts and halls of the palaces that were seats of royal residence...
...ruins. Professor Dorpfeld declared that he knew no where else in Greece walls of any ancient city that were so solid and so strong. There is a great probability that this citadel, found under the ruins of Greek Ilion, is the Troy that was destroyed by the Greeks under Agamemnon. This supposition is made certain by the character of the objects found in the houses and near the city walls. Here have been found fragments of the same sort of antique pottery which the excavations at Tiryns and Mycenae have made known to every archaeologist, and which, according...
...their heroes in a wonder land, and men claimed there was no evidence that Troy ever existed. The earlier chapters of the city were lost, not only in history, but in myth. Mycenx's kings were great in power and wealth and any one could have been Homer's Agamemnon. Indeed modern scholars doubted the site assigned to Troy. In northwestern Asia Minor was a hill on which Illium, a city which asserted itself to be Homer's City, must have stood; but no ruins were there visible except those of a Roman Illium...
Professor Goodwin's lecture last night was on Mycenae and Tiryns. Mycenae was founded by a son of Zeus, and at the time of Agamemnon its glory was at its height. The two Homeric poems contain the best descriptions of Mycenae. The renowned luxury of Menelaus and Helen in Sparta did not vie with the luxury of Mycenae. In some tombs opened at Mycenae by Dr. Schlieman in 1876, were found numerous coins and gold and silver vessels of great value. One tomb containing the body of a man which had become a fossil, contained gold plate and coins which...