Mycenæ: a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycenæ and TirynsSchliemann, Heinrich
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Mycenæ: a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns
Schliemann, Heinrich
Mycenae (Extinct city); Tiryns (Extinct city)
[319] See Nos. 282, 283, 284, pp. 186, 188.
[320] The Cut has to be viewed with the outer edge of the page
downwards.
[321] See 'Troy and its Remains,' p. 335, Plate XIX.
[322] See Nos. 329-330, p. 218.
[323] _De Pythiæ Oraculis_; _Op. Moral._ ed. Didot, vol. i. p.
488.
[324] This name is always Μαύσσολλος on the coins.
[325] _Quæst. Græc._ p. 45.
[326] See the Vignette to Chapter III., p. 52.
[327] See 'Atlas des Antiquités Troyennes,' Plate 21, Nos. 583
and 584. This explains how the nurse Euryclea fastened on the lids of the
amphoræ for Telemachus. (Hom. _Odyss._ ii. 354):--
Δώδεκα δ᾽ ἔμπλησον, καὶ πώμασιν
ἄρσον ἅπαντας.
[328] See 'Troy and its Remains,' pp. 160, 208, 209, 214, 352.
[329] The two remaining buttons have similar patterns.
[330] See the engraving, No. 460, on p. 303.
[331] See, for example, _Iliad_ XIII. 650 and 662.
[332] X. 261-265.
... ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ κυνέην κεφαλῇφιν
εθηκεν,
ῥινοῦ ποιητήν· πολέσιν δ᾿ ἔντοσθεν
ἱμᾶσιν ἐντέτατο στερεῶς· ἔκτοσθε δὲ
λευκοὶ ὀδόντες ἀργιόδοντος ὑὸς
θαμέες
ἔχον ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα εὖ καὶ
ἐπισταμένως.
"And on his brows a leathern headpiece placed
Well wrought within, with numerous straps secured,
And on the outside, with wild boar's gleaming tusks
Profusely garnished, scattered here and there
By skilful hand." LORD DERBY.
[333] These ornaments of horse-trappings vividly remind us of
the famous passage in the Iliad IV., 141:
ὡς δ᾿ ὅτε τις τ᾿ ἐλέφαντα γυνὴ
φοίνικι μιήνῃ Μῃονὶς ἠὲ Κάειρα
παρήïον ἔμμεναι ἵππων· κεῖται δ᾿
ἐν θαλάμω, πολέες τέ μιν ἠρήσαντο
ἱππῆες φορέειν· βασιλῆï δὲ
κεῖται ἄγαλμα, ἀμφότερον, κόσμος
θ᾿ ἵππω, ἐλατῆρί τε κῦδος·
"As when some Carian or Mæonian maid
With crimson dye the ivory stains, designed
To be the cheek-piece of a warrior's steed,
By many a valiant horseman coveted,
As in the house it lies, a monarch's boast,
The horse adorning, and the horseman's pride."
LORD DERBY.
[334] _Il._ XVIII. 346; _Odyss._ VIII. 435.
[335] See Edward Freiherr von Sacken, 'Das Grabfeld von
Hallstatt.'
[336] XIII. 13; and XV. 84.
[337] VIII. 290; and IX. 122.
[338] XI. 700; XXIII. 264, 485, 513, 718.
[339] _Il._ XVIII. 373.
[340] _Odyss._ VIII. 434; _Il._ XVIII. 344.
[341] _Il._ XXIII. 702; XXII. 164 it is called τριπος instead of
the usual form τρίπους.
[342] Φάσγανον for σφάγανον, from the root σφαγ.
There was also a verb φασγάνω "to kill with the
sword:" Hesych. _Lex. s. v._
[343] See 'Troy and its Remains,' p. 332, Nos. 267 and 268.
[344] See 'Troy and its Remains,' p. 265.
[345] For an engraving of this sword, after cleaning, see
Appendix D.
[346] See Nos. 84, 88, p. 71.
[347] No. 83, p. 70.
[348] See p. 233.
[349] See my 'Atlas des Antiquités Troyennes,' Pl. 105, No.
2311.
[350] See No. 230, p. 154.
CHAPTER IX.
THE FIFTH SEPULCHRE, AND THE FIRST AGAIN.
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