Connecticut western news., 1877-05-04
MAN. CONN, FRIDAY MAY 4, 1877.

Perseus and dAgamemmon. Unlike most of his countrymen, who are usually cautious. cool, incredulous, painfully weighing evidence on this side and that, and watching intently lest they should allow sentiment of poetry or tradition to color the theories they construct, Dr. Schliemann has perfect faith-we had almost said credulity-int the importance of his discovery, the indentity of the antique objects he unearths with those mentioned by the blind bard, and in the historic existence of events hitherto re- garded as legendary. Itwas German, we believe, who proved that the heroic William Tell never existed except in the lively imagination of the Swiss; it is a German who now tells us that Troy certainly was, and Priam, and Achilles, and Agamemmon, and Hector; that an elopement, breeding war, really took place on the part of Paris and Helen; and that he has found the treasure of the king, the citadel, and many other of the objects and places described in the "Iliad."
 Dr. Schliemann has logically trans ferred his researches from the Troad to Argos, and crossing the Egean, has settled down to the excavation of the long-mysterious ruins of Mycene. Those ruins are, not improbably, con- temporaneous with those of Troy; and from Mycen@ came the king who con- manded the Hellenic forces before the Asiatic city, the brother of the outraged husband of Helen. Substantial results have followed the painful digging of the German and his devoted wife, which enthusiastic couple "may have been seen'' squatting on the ground under the rain, troweling up the earth, and every now and then bringing forth from oblivion golden diadems and goblets, earrings and necklaces.
 Whether or not these ruins date as far back as the warlike monarch who, &C., cording to Homer, was not the first of the great men of earth, it seems at least clear that they existed as stately edifces at period when glass and iron were unknown in Argos, that is, in the pe- riod which arch@ologists designate as the s'Bronze age;" and the same may be said of the Troy unearthed by Dr. Schlie, mann. As yet he has been able to find no writings or inscriptions, from which it would appear that the sepultures of the gorgeously- -arrayed bodies which he has found took place, in all likelihood before the Greeks had adopted the Phoe nician alphabet. Yet the artistic beauty of the pottery and jewelry which have so abundantly rewarded Dr. Schlie- mann's delving shows to what high state of perfection the workmanship of goldsmiths and potters had attained in this unquestionably remote period.
 Dr. Schliemann is not, indeed, enti- tied to the credit of discovering the site and making the first researches at My cen@, as at Troy; for the Treasury of Aureus, the Gate of the Lions, and the cyclopean walls which once surrounded the city, were excavated many year ago. No doubt the tombs which Drs ancient line of powerful and wealthy kings, who must have lived in gorgeous fashion, tojudge by the splendor of their funeral ornaments; for one of them, at least, was buried with crown of gold over two feet long, while their rings and other jewels, adorned with precious stones, further attest their luxury. We have as yet, doubtless, but small in- stalment of the discoveries the indefat- igable doctor is destined to make at My cen@; and very likely, before he has completed his task, he may come upon inscriptions which will prove incompa. rably more precious to history than the golden treasures already found.-Apple- toms Journal.