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PLATE V.
THE TREASURY CLOSE TO THE LIONS' GATE. Excavated by Mrs. SCHLIEMANN. Frontispiece.
MYCENÆ A NARRATIVE OF RESEARCHES AND DISCOVERIES AT MYCENÆ AND TIRYNS.
BY DR. HENRY SCHLIEMANN
CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: AUTHOR OF 'TROY AND ITS REMAINS,' 'ITHAQUE, LE PÉLOPONNÈSE ET TROIE,' AND 'LA CHINE ET LE JAPON.'
THE PREFACE
BY THE RIGHT HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P.
MAPS, PLANS, AND MORE THAN 700 OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS. A NEW EDITION, WITH IMPORTANT ADDITIONS AND NEW PLATES.
NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 1880.
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Copyright, 1877, SCRIBNER, ARMSTRONG & CO.
Copyright, 1880, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.
PRESS OF J. J. LITTLE & CO., Nos, 10 TO 20 ASTOR PLACE, NEW YORK.
Dedicated
TO
HIS MAJESTY DOM PEDRO II.,
EMPEROR OF BRAZIL, WITH THE PROFOUND RESPECT OF THE AUTHOR.
᾽Επὶ δ᾽ ἐγδούπησαν ᾽Ἀθηναίη τε καὶ ῞Ἥρη Τιμῶσαι βασιλῆα πολυχρύσοιο Μυκήνης. HOM. Il. XI. 45, 46. Πρὸς ἡμῶν κάππεσεv, κάτθανε, ἡμεῖς καὶ καταθάψομεν οὐχ ὑπὸ κλαυθμῶν τῶν ἐξ οἴκων. ÆSCH. Agam. 1552-1554. ῏Ω τοῦ στρατηγήσαντος ἐν Τροίᾳ ποτὲ Ἀγαμέμνονος παῖ, νῦν ἐκεῖν᾽ ἔξεστί σοι παρόντι λεύσσειν, ὧν πρόθυμος ἦσθ᾽ ἀεί. Τὸ γὰρ παλαιὸν ῎Αργος ὁὺπόθεις τόδε, τῆς οἰστροπλῆγος ἄλσος Ἰνάχου κόρης· αὕτη δ᾽, Ὀρέστα, τοῦ λυκοκτόνου θεοῦ ᾽Αγορὰ Λύκειος· οὑξ ἀριστερᾶς δ᾽ ὅδε Ἥρας ὁ κλεινὸς ναός· οἷ δ᾽ ἱκάνομεν, ϕάσκειν Μυκήνας τὰς πολυχρύσους ὁρᾶν· πολύϕθορόν τε δῶμα Πελοπιδῶν τόδε, SOPHOCLES, Electra, 1-10.