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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...
...Excursion to the costal plain of southern Maine, conducted by Professor Davis...
McGawley, J E, Jamaica Plain...
Williams, L C, Jamaica Plain...
...Charles French Thayer, d. at Jamaica Plain, 11 June...