The glory that was Greece : a survey of Hellenic culture and civilization (1915)
Stobart, J. C. (John Clarke), 1878-1933, Hopper, R. J. (Robert John), 1910- · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 76
m lifeless conventionality. Somescholars believe that the pillar between the animals is a proofof the much-discussed pillar-worship of prehistoric Greece. But the most interesting of the Mycenaean remains areundoubtedly the tombs. In the city itself there is a circularenclosure surrounded by a… … Beehive Tomb: Section burying-places, also circular, but of a later date and muchmore striking. These subterranean beehive tombs havebeen found elsewhere in Greece, but nowhere of suchsplendour. It was one of these which Schliemann proclaimedto be the tomb of Agamemnon. Like the pyramids in…
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