In search of Agamemnon : early travellers to Mycenae / by Dudley Moore, Edward Rowlands and Nektarios Karadimas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Dudley J.

Contributor:

Rowlands, Edward.

Karadimas, Nektarios.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology).

Mycenae (Extinct city)--Antiquities.

Mycenae (Extinct city).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Mycenae (Extinct city).

Greece--Mycenae (Extinct city).

Physical Description:

xvi, 174 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Summary:

Although many books focus on the fascinating story of Heinrich Schliemann, little has been written, on Mycenae before his excavations. This book, therefore, fills this gap. It looks at the English-speaking pioneers who visited the citadel at Mycenae before Schliemann, providing additional biographic references in the footnotes (and bibliography and associated sources). The book's primary purpose is to bring back to life the thoughts of these pioneers on Mycenae. It is also a reflection on dating theories of the site during the nineteenth century. At that time, the general consensus concerning the beginning of the 'Greek world' was the classical civilisation of the fifth century BC. This was not the view of many of these travellers. The ancients too had a fascination with Mycenae. The Homeric tales of Agamemnon, King of Mycenae, led to popular sixth and fifth century BC plays from the likes of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. But what did these ancient writers and later travellers, such as Pausamas, actually see? Finally, there is a need to be reminded of some of the 'pioneer' travellers to Mycenae and their descriptions of the Lion Gate citadel and the 'Treasury of Atreus', as they are of particular historical interest. Not only that, but some of these observations are pure poetry and a delight to read. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Ancient Greek and Roman Travellers to Mycenae 9

Homer and Mycenae

Mycenae in the fifth century B.C

Fifth century BC Logographers of Mycenae

Hero worship to Agamemnon and others at Mycenae

Mycenae's destruction and condition throughout the classical era

The state and visibility of Grave Circle A

Mycenae after the departure of Argos

Pausanias (second century AD)

Treasury of Atreus

Grave Circle A

Tholos Tombs of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus and others

The Perseia

The Gate with Lions

Conclusion

Agamemnon and Sparta

Summary

Chapter 2 Greece and the Grand Tour 37

The Grand Tour

Dating

Chapter 3 British and Irish Travellers 1760-1809 45

Richard Chandler

John Bacon Sawrey Morritt

John Hawkins

Thomas Hope

Edward Daniel Clarke

Lord Elgin

Henry Raikes

William Gell

Edward Dodwell

William Martin Leake

Chapter 4 British and Irish Travellers 1810-1834 77

Lord Sligo

John Gait

William Haygarth

Charles Robert Cockerell

Thomas Smart Hughes

Henry Holland

William Turner

Peter Edmund Laurent

Thomas Leverton Donaldson

Thomas Gordon

Joseph Woods

George Finlay

David Urquhart

Thomas Abercromby Trant

Richard Monkton Milnes

Christopher Wordsworth

Richard Burgess

Chapter 5 British and Irish Travellers 1835-1877 103

Edward Giffard

Francis Hervé

William Robert Wilde

William Mure

James Skene

Elizabeth Mary Grosvenor

William Linton

Charles Thomas Newton

William George Clark

John Pentland Mahaffy

William Simpson

Richard C. Jebb

Others British Travellers

Richard Payne Knight

Thomas Burgon

William Bramsen

John Madox

George Cochrane

Grenville T. Temple

Charles Addison

Edward Lear

Chapter 6 American Travellers 137

Nathaniel Parker Willis

John Lloyd Stephens

Samuel Gridley Howe

Valentine Mott

Henry Martyn Baird

James Mason Hoppin

Bayard Taylor

Thomas Chase

Cornelius Felton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1443856215

9781443856218

OCLC:

871508264

Publisher Number:

99958865099