Identifier: HistoryOfGreeceForHighSchoolsAndAcademies (find matches)
Title: History of Greece for High Schools and Academies
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Botsford, George Willis, 1862-1917
Subjects: Greece -- History
Publisher: New York : Macmillan Co.

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omegranates, and appletrees with bright fruit, and sweet figs and olives in theirbloom. The fruit of these trees never perisheth, neitherfaileth, winter or summer, enduring through all the year.Evermore the West Wind blowing brings some fruits tobirth and ripens others. Pear upon pear waxes old, andapple upon apple, yea, and cluster ripens upon cluster ofthe grape, and fig upon fig. There, too, hath he a fruitfulvineyard planted, whereof the one part is being dried bythe heat, a sunny plot on level ground, while other grapesmen are gathering, and yet others they are treading in thewine-press. In the foremost row are unripe grapes thatcast the blossom, and others there be that are growingblack to vintaging. There, too, skirting the furthestline, are all manner of garden beds, planted trimly,that are perpetually fresh, and therein are two foun-tains of water, whereof one scatters his streams all aboutthe garden, and the other runs over against it beneath The Gate of the Lions at Mycenae
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Mycencs 7 the threshold of the courtyard, and issues by the loftyhouse, and thence did the townsfolk draw water. Thesewere the splendid gifts of the gods in the palace ofAlcinoiis. Mycenae, rich in gold, is younger than Tiryns; but Mycenae,because it was better situated, its king in course of timebecame ruler of all Argolis. Dr. Schliemann and others //. xi, 46.have unearthed in Mycenae not only the walls and palace,but also private houses, the homes of lords and servants.From these discoveries it is possible to learn how thepeople of Mycenae lived, and even what they wore andate.1 But the most remarkable objects which they foundwere the tombs and their contents. In some of thesetombs lay the bodies of the prehistoric rulers of Mycenae.In two of them lay three women, their heads adorned with p. Gardner,lofty gold diadems, their bodies covered with plates of gold p* 64*which had been sewn on their dresses. In four graves laybodies of men, varying in number from one to five, somewearingHistoryOfGreeceForHighSchoolsAndAcademies

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