The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-06
"GLORY THAT WAS GREECE'
DR. DOERFELD'S LECTURE ON MY-
 GENIE IND TIRYNS.

How the Ruins of the Famous Cities Were
 Unearthed-A Recital of Dr. Schlie-
 Was Taken Up and Carried On-Its Press
 ent Status.
 Cheers greeted the great scholar, Dr.
 Doerpfeld, as he reappeared on the speakers platform in Osborn hall, last night, and in 8 moment he dipped at once into his main theme, "Mycaene and Tiryns." Pausanias once wander ed into Argolis, and surveyed the re- mains of the temples and palaces in both Tiryns and in Mycenae, wonder ing in astonishment at the great size and immensity of the structures there.
 Many years more passed away and the cities became but little more than his
 tory Mycaene, shown in the first view,
 by the concentrated electric rays, lies about ten miles inland while Tiryns is situated near the coast, the gulf shore
 pr. Schliemann began his work of ex- cavation at Tiryns in 1876; the first and large part of the walls were un- earthed; then left as they were, until
 the work was completed in 1885, which
 had been resumed the year previous. The city consisted of huge stone struct-
 ures, the largest of which was an inn
 mense palace or castle, eighty feet above the sea level, of which only few
 walls were visible in parts when Dr.
 Schliemann first surveyed the scene.
 The palace was divided in two parts,
 the right portioned into apartments,
 the left as yet not fully unearthed, con taining apparently dwellings of an in- ferior type, but full of interest to the explorer Another view flashed on the
 canvas the surroundings of the great
 palace, the plain at the foot, the city
 of Nauplia in the background and dis
 tance, and the fortress of Pylamade at the side
 The peculiar feature of all the en-
 closures in both Tirwns and Mycenae is the double nature, an outer and an
 inner wall, the former of giant stones,
 polyagonal, but fitted well together,
 some twice a mans height in diameter;
 and the inner wall of much smaller stones, and with the crevices mortar filled. A secret, narrow path leads to the top of the wall (shown in view
 four) thirty-five feet high. The encom- passing walls are from fifteen to thirty feet in thickness; a remarkable and
 noticeable feature. The entrance is be- meath the vaulted arches of stone corridor or gallery, the overshadowing | arches formed by huge boulders inclin- | ed inwards from the outer line of the
 passage way, covering in full span a gallery fourteen feet wide leading into
 the palace proper On passing beneath the archway the visitor stands in a great open court, then series of cor- riders and halls leading away from it to the various rooms of the palace. Back of the court, a suite of rooms, in the very center of the building, sur rounded by halls, the megaron, or
 mems apartment. A second and small
 CT suite of apartments lies back of the
 great central salon, and accessible only by roundabout corridors. This smaller megaron Is supposed to have been the apartment for women.
 Behind the megara and near the outer edge of the palace were the bath rooms, finished with water conduits and appurtenances for the bath On the eastern side, reached by narrow doorway, lay the treasure house. or
 theosaurus The huge place, in
 every palace found, is covered by four
 gigantic columns, rising above the hearthstone. This style of fire-p place is
 marked feature of the ruins found, and, together with the smooth stone
 work, the colossal size of the rooms, the alabaster ornaments on the walls,
 all prove the structure at Tiryns to
 have been a Greek palace
 Then the scene shifted, and the next view showed the facade of the Mega ron, of first epoch, restored by the architect Chippiez. The central col | umns of stone were surmounted by the | capital, and, above this, of curving cymatium, or concave moulding. slabs and abacus.
 In the palace at Tiyrns the friezes are inlaid with blue glass (recalling | Homer's famous description) and TO- | temple was destroyed as early as LOGO years B. c. In Its place a temple was erected, and this subsequently, laid low in 500 B. G.; and, lastly, a modern dwell ling house erected; the reconstructions of the temples and palaces by the not ed architects Chippiez and Perrot. The fifteenth scene was a view of the | Mycenaenian hill and the towering
 background of a yet loftier range. Many boulders, huge stones from the
 dismantled walls. lie at the base of the | mountains, having fallen from the ru- ins. pr. Schliemann it was who dis covered the Acropolis of Mycenae, and a treasure, masses of gold, in the en- | tryway or yestibule, which is now in 1 the National museum.
 | The next year further excavating re-
 aron, corridors, vestibule, bathroom
 and fireplace, arched by pillars. The walls. however, were better built than | those at Tiryns. Over the doorway, | twice the height of a man, stand the carved figures of two stone lions, on a triangular stone, acting as keystone i to the walls, as well as ornamentation. Near the palace are the royal sepul- chres, five in number, which Pausanias | declares he himself saw.
 The walls are plastered, and the bar ed wall, appearing in bald patches from l the loosened plaster, reveals traces of the great heat from the destruction of
 the buildings. The dome-shaped sep