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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...
...Menelaus. A. B. Nichols...