Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890 · New York : Scribner, Armstrong · leaf 212
olid way covered with cross slabs, must necessarilyhave served as a bench to sit upon and as the enclosureof the Agora of Mycenae. He thinks that the first ideafor the form of an Agora was given by the circular-dances(kvkKlol x°Pol) ant^ tne recitation of the dithyrambs.*The assembled people sat in… … * The Dithyramb was an ancient Bacchanalian performance, asearly at least as Archilochus, who says he knows how to lead off thedithyramb, the beautiful song of Dionysus, when his mind is inflamedwith wine (Frag. ap. Athen. XIV. p. 628). It seems to have been ahymn sung by one or more members of a…
