"The basis of a semi-column of greenish marble with wreathed stripes in relief; further, the fragment of a half round column with a zigzag decoration; stone tables, the one of greenish, the other of lustrous red colour, a third of white marble, all with a relief ornamentation in the form of muscles, fans or spiral lines, which are distinguished by sharply and neatly chiselled outlines; finally, a red marble slab, which Gell found in a neighbouring chapel." FOOTNOTES: [93] In the background is the second peak of Mount Eubœa, 2000 feet high, which rises immediately south of the Acropolis of Mycenæ. [94] II. 18. See the Sketch Map on p. 1. [95] V. 60. [96] II. 25, 3. [97] Κηϕισός. II. 15, 5; the lesser streams are not shown on the Sketch Map, p. 1. [98] The accuracy of this name is confirmed by Pausanias, II. 17, § 2. [99] _Il._ II. 287, III. 75 and 258, VI. 152, IX. 246, XV. 30, and XIX. 329. Comp. Horat. _Carm._ I. 7, 8, 9:-- "Plurimus in Junonis honorem Aptum dicet equis Argos, ditesque Mycenas." [100] II. 15. [101] _Meteorol._ i. 14. [102] Soph. _Electra_, 4. [103] Paus. II. 15, 5; comp. Plato, _Timæus_. [104] Comp. Æschyl. _Suppl._ 250. [105] _Od._ III. 263:--"μυχῷ ῎Αργεος ἱπποβότοιο." [106] See the large Plate II. and Plan B of the Acropolis. [107] See Émile Burnouf, 'La Ville et l'Acropole d'Athènes.' [108] A good view of this wonderful wall is seen in the background of Plate VI., which represents the Ichnography of the tombs discovered in the Acropolis. (See Chap. V.) [109] See Plan B., Plate III., and Nos. 21, 22 (p. 34) [110] Soph. _Electra_, 1374. [111] Schol. Eurip. _Orest._ 5; Apollod. iii. 5, 6; Soph. _Antig._ 818. [112] _Agam._ 1259: λέοντος εὐγενοῖς ἀπουσίᾳ. [113] _Agam._ 1258. [114] For an account of the discovery of the ground plan of the Lions' Gate and its enormous threshold, see Chapter V. [115] See Plan C, and the cut No. 23. [116] To ῎Αργιον ὄρος. _De Fluv._ 18, 7. [117] _Troad._ 1088, τείχη λάïνα κυκλώπια οὐράνια. [118] _Electra_, 1158, κυκλώπεια οὐράνια τείχη. [119] VIII. p. 377. [120] _Iliad_, I. 29-31: τὴν δ' ἐγὼ οὺ λύσω πρίν μιν καὶ γῆρας ἔπεισιν ἡμετέρῳ ἐνὶ οἴκῳ, ἐν ῎Αργεï, τηλίθι πάτρης, ἱστὸν ἐποιχομένην καὶ ἐμον λέχος ἀντιόωσαν. [121] _Iliad_, II. 108: πολλῇσιν νήσοισι καὶ ῎Αργεï παντὶ ἀνάσσειν. [122] _Iphigenia in Aulide_, 152: κυκλώπων θυμέλαι. [123] _Ibid._ 265: Μυκῆναι κυκλωπίαι. [124] _Ibid._ 1500-1501: καλεῖς πόλισμα Περσέως, Κυκλωπίων πόνον χερῶν; [125] _Iphig. Taur._ 845: κυκλωπίδες ἑστίαι, ὦ πάτρις, Μυκήνα φίλα. [126] _Electra_, 710: πετρίνοις τ᾽ ἐπιστὰς κάρυξ ιάχει βάθροις, αγοράν, ἀγοράν, Μυκηναῖοι στείχετε μακαρίων ὸψόμενοι τυράννων φάσματα, δείματα. [127] _Iphigenia in Aulide_, 1498-1499: ἰὼ γᾶ μᾶτερ ὦ Πελασγία, Μυκηναῖαί τ᾽ ἐμαί θεράπναι. [128] _Orestes_, 1246-1247: Μυκηνίδες ὦ φίλαι, τὰ πρῶτα κατὰ Πελασγὸν ἑδος ᾽Αργείων.