Chapter Iii. Heracles : p. 187 CHAPTER III HERACLES I have tried to show that Greek epic poetry and the great mythological cycles go back into the Mycenaean age. In order not to be misunderstood I am anxious to stress the fact that the boundaries set for our knowledge in this respect are the same as those which limit...
Chapter I. How Old Is Greek Mythology : p. 1 CHAPTER I HOW OLD IS GREEK MYTHOLOGY? The question: "How old is Greek mythology?" may at first sight seem idle, for Greek mythology is obviously of many different ages. For example, many genealogies and eponymous heroes created for political purposes are late, such inventions having been made...
Chapter Ii. Mycenaean Centers And Mythological. Part 07 : 3. THE DOMINION OF PYLOS West of Laconia and separated from it by the high and steep Mount Taygetus is Messenia, but the boundaries of this province toward the north are not so neatly fixed as those of Laconia. In historical times they varied not a little. 1 Triphylia, the coastal district north...
Chapter Ii. Mycenaean Centers And Mythological. Part 03 : 7. NORTHERN BOEOTIA AND THESSALY Just as Thebes is the center of Southern Boeotia, Orchomenus is the center of the northern part of the province, together with the great and fertile plain at the lake of Copais. Orchomenus has always been famous for its bee-hive tomb, the so-called treasury...
Chapter Ii. Mycenaean Centers And Mythological. Part 09 : 1. ARGOLIS I commence of course with Argolis, for this province held the primacy both in Mycenaean civilization and in Greek mythology. It is the richest in Mycenaean remains as well as in myths. Its capital was Mycenae, and that this city should give its name to the age and the civilization with...
Chapter Iv. Olympus : p. 221 CHAPTER IV OLYMPUS We are wont to think that the gods of a polytheistic religion are regularly brought into a system similar to that which we find in the Greek mythology, but on close consideration it soon appears that there is nothing in all the religions of the world which really...
Chapter Ii. Mycenaean Centers And Mythological. Part 05 : 5. THE IONIAN ISLANDS Odysseus has his home on Ithaca, and the scene of the greater part of the Odyssey is laid on that island. Since the search for Mycenaean remains according to the guidance of the Homeric myths had been rewarded so brilliantly at Mycenae and at Troy, it is intelligible that Mr...
Chapter Ii. Mycenaean Centers And Mythological. Part 08 : 2. LACONIA From Argolis, the chief seat of the Mycenaean civilization, we proceed to the southeastern province, Laconia. Several important Mycenaean remains are found here, but they cannot be compared with those of Argolis. The bee-hive tomb at Vaphio near Sparta where the two golden cups, the most...
Chapter Ii. Mycenaean Centers And Mythological. Part 04 : 6. SOUTHERN BOEOTIA Boeotia comes next to Argolis and takes the second place in the richness both of its myths and of its Mycenaean remains. There we find two important Mycenaean cities; though the perversity of Fate has left less than elsewhere of past splendor, there is enough to prove that they...
Chapter Ii. Mycenaean Centers And Mythological. Part 10 : p. 35 CHAPTER II MYCENAEAN CENTERS AND MYTHOLOGICAL CENTERS Having in the first chapter laid down the principles and premisses according to which we have to proceed, we now enter upon our main subject, a detailed comparison between the centers of Mycenaean civilization and the centers...
Chapter Ii. Mycenaean Centers And Mythological : p. 181 9. CONCLUSION In this chapter I have surveyed the Greek provinces; I have briefly called attention to their Mycenaean monuments and to their relative importance in the Mycenaean age; I have recapitulated the myths and discussed their probable references to that age. The following summary...
Chapter Ii. Mycenaean Centers And Mythological. Part 02 : 8. ATTICA Attica is strewn with Mycenaean remains. Best known are those from the Acropolis of Athens. The hill is surrounded by an old Cyclopean wall which follows the natural sinuosities of the rock and is probably of Mycenaean date. On the Acropolis are the remains of Mycenaean buildings...
Chapter Ii. Mycenaean Centers And Mythological. Part 06 : p. 90 4. THE REST OF THE PELOPONNESE If we now turn to the remaining parts of the Peloponnesian peninsula, to Arcadia, the central mountain land, to Elis, the northwestern district, and to Achaea, the coastal province on the south side of the Corinthian gulf, Mycenaean remains are remarkably...
Title Page : THE MYCENAEAN ORIGIN OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY BY MARTIN P. NILSSON University Of California Press: Berkeley, California. Sather Classical Lectures Volume 8 [1932, Copyright Not Renewed] scanned , January 2006. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was not renewed at the US...