Connecticut western news., 1876-12-22
A GREAT DISCOVERY.

A GREAT DISCOVERY.
 pr. sObliemnnn'. Report from Mucous to the King of Gareecc-The Tamb Ga Aga.
 memnOn Discovered.
 Fresh on the heels of Cesnola's won de1fBl discoveries of treasure at Kitium comes an important announcement from Dr. Henri iSchliemann. This enthusiastic arch@logist has been at work upoh the site of the ancient city Of Mycena in the Peloponnestls, and his work has been crowned witE the most complete sue. cess. The doctor has tele9raphed to the king of Greece Us follows:
 A MAGNIFICENT OFFERING.
 To His Majesty King George
 With unbounded joy I announee to your majesty that have diseoSered the monument which the tradition related by Pausanitis indicates the tombs of Agamemnon, Cassandra, Eurymedon and their companions who were killed wbile feasting at a banquet by Clysem- nestra and her lover Agisthus.
 These toTnbs ere surrounded by a double parallel circle, with tablets un- doub bteCly erected in honor of the victims. In these tombs have found immense archaeological treasures and mum bers of articles of pure gold.
 The treasure alone is sufficient to fill large museum, and the most splendid In the world. In succeeding ages am sure it will attract to Greece thousands ot strangers from abroad. As I am laboring simply for the love of science l wave all claim to the. treasure and offer it, with enthusiasm, entirely to Greece.
 Sire, may these treasures, with Gods blessing, become the corner stone of an immense national wealth.
 DR. HENRI SoHMEMANN.
 M9CENE, November 28, 1876.
 IMPORTANCE OF THE DISCOVERIES.
 The highest scientific authorities in London declare Dr. Schliemann's dis coveries to be the most important yet made in the history of archaeological in vestigation. They go back to the Cy- clopean era in architecture and to the time of the destruction of Troy or to the Greece of almost 5000 years ago, when it was the first city of the Rel- lenes.
 
 Mycen@, the town of which Dr, Schliemann speaks in this letter, is one of She most ancient in the world. Long before the Greeks joined together to avenge the wrongs of Menelaus and to recover the beautiful Helen from her paramour Paris this city was a great center of government and civilization. Homer calls it "populous and "broad streeted," and it was it's King Agamemnon ~-the "King of Men '- who was chosen to command the Grecian forces at Troy. Dr. Schliemann, in dig ging up these relics and exposing to view the tombs of these heroes of long departed ages, carries us back far be. yoni historic times, and to a great ex tent overturns the theories of several modern writers on history. The stories which have generally been considered almost mythical of the return of Aga memnonand his murder by his wife Cly. temnestra and her lover Egisthus are now almost confirmed by the discovery of their tombs in positions which tend to prove the truth of the legend. This story IS one of the most tragica that has been treated by the great poets of the golden age of Greek tragedy. Hschylus in his "Agamemnon, Sopho cles in his " Electra" and Euripides k his s'Orestes have each in turn drama tized various phases of this remarkable story. The legend, or, as we may now term it, history, relates how Agamem non, on his return from the siege ot Troy, was foully murdered in his owr banquet hall, and how his wife and pa ramour, who had murdered him, after ward intermarried.
 THE STORY OF AGAMEMNoN.
 Agamemnon and Menelaus were son. of Plisthenes and grandsons of Aureus king of Mycen@. They were brought up, together with their cousin H yisthus in the house of Aureus. After the mur der of Aureus by Egisthus and Thyeste. the two brothers fled to Sparta, of which place Menelaus -afterward became king They married two sisters, the daughters | of Tgndarus, Agam emnon espousine Clytemnestra and Menelaus the far famed Helen. At the conclusion of the Trojan war, whither Agamemnon ha6 gone to assist his brother in recovering his wife, he returned to Mycenm. Be | his share in the spells Cassandra, the quently foretold to him the sad fat. which awaited him should he return but, blind to fate, he insisted on hasten ing back to his "much loved Mycense On his arrival there he found that hi, cousin Hgisthus, whom he had left a. the guardian of his kingdom and of hi wife, had basely betrayed his trust ant was living in adultery with Clytemnes tra. The guilty couple immediately re solved to add to their crime by murder ing him, and took the opportunity of banquet given to celebrate his saf arrival. It is related that as he cam, from the bath Clytemnestra gave him tunic with the sleeves sewn up, and as h. vainly attempted to put it on she felle. him with blows of 8 hatchet. while The lover, Hgisthus, assisted. At the sam time several of his companions perished and amohg them Cassandra, who ha warned him of his fate.
 . The murder forms the plot of tn
 "Agamemnon of R schylus, the frs
 of the great dramatic triumvirate, whil , the return of Orestes and the death ( Clytemnestra at his hands form those ( the "Electra and S Orestes.' THE SITE OF THE EXPLORATIONS, Mycen@, the scene of this terrib
 tragedy, was an ancient town in Argoli
 about six miles to the northeast of A
 gos, and is situated Or little hill at tf r head of narrow valley. During Il reign of Agamemnon it was considere t the chief city in the Pelopopnesus, b, after the Dorian invasion it ceass d to | s a place of much importance. It co1 l tinued, however, to be an independe1 3 town until the year 468 B. c , when 8 was attacked by the Argivea, who, ha ing reduc> d the inhabitants by famin s razed the town level with the adjoini1