Weir, Irene, 1863-1944 · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & Company · leaf 62
ajestic frowning fortress, Palamidi, risingsuperbly behind the town, and for a certain gar-den of deep crimson roses gayly climbing a yellowstucco wall in sheer abandonment of joy, — wereit not that the traveler is impatient to proceed tothe more classic ground of ancient Tiryns, Argos,… … Tiryns : the Citadel Wall plain of Argolis, surrounded by Cyclopean wallsof gigantic unhewn blocks of stone piled one uponanother as only Titans could have piled them.This confirms, even in our own day, Homersappellation of wall-girt Tiryns. Originally thiswall may have been between sixty and…
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