Mylonas Finishes KU Tour With Mycenaean Description
George E. Mylonas, Washington University scholar, left campus Wednesday after lecturing to various classes and participating in the Humanities Series lectures.
He spoke Monday night in Murphy Hall before 1,000 persons. Mylonas' speciality area is the ancient Greek city of Mycenae. His lecture was illustrated with his own slides.
A NATIVE GREEK. Mylonas has returned to Greece six of the last seven years to direct excavations in the ruins he calls "one of the most wonderful sights in the world."
Mylonas has written three books and numerous tracts on his findings, received awards, fellowships, and honorary degrees, and has been recognized by King George I of Greece for his work.
"We now know more about Mycenae," he said, "than the Mycenaeans themselves knew."
THE CITY, which was the foremost political, cultural, and religious center of the world in 1400 B.C., has been dated to 2500 B.C. by archaeologists,
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The importance of the city was its location at the crossroads of southern Greece, Mylonas explained. Situated on a hill overlooking the commercial routes to the East, it exacted a toll from the caravans that passed.
"Mycenae became known as a city rich in gold which has been uncovered in the excavations," Mylonas said, "Its ruins contain more gold than any other."
SLIDES USED in the lecture showed the Lion Gate, entrance to the city. Its name came from a relief above the 15-foot thick arched wall depicting a column flanked by two lions.
"I if I am correct," Mylonas said.
"The relief is a coat of arms dating to 1250 B.C., the oldest in history."
Another slide showed a hole in the wall, next to the gateway to the city. Mylonas said he had always heard that the hole was a window from which a guard could either greet or throw stones on visitors to the city.
The ingenuity of the Mycenaeans was shown in a newly uncovered cistern. Steps lead from within the wall underground where a tunnel intersects a water conduit from neighboring mountains. The walls of the tunnel were plastered with a waterproof substance of undetermined origin.
MYLONAS MADE repeated references to Henrik Schliemann, the early archaeologist who excavated a tomb area within the walls—the Grave Circle—and extracted gold and pottery artifacts.
Mylonas made a similar discovery on a nearby hill.
Mylonas described the tedious operation of modern excavation. It required removing the earth by two-inch layers and passing it all through a sieve.
"Schliemann was crude in his excavation," Mylonas said. "but we have to remember that he worked when archaeology was in its infancy. The same thing could be said about us years from now."
"We never give up," he said.
Daily Kansan
Friday, November 12, 1965
KU Voice Chairman Plans Recital
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Kenneth Smith, bass-baritone, who was named chairman of the voice department this fall, will present his first KU program on Wednesday, November 17, at 8:00 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall. Smith, a native of Leeds, England, has made New York his home for the last two decades. A veteran of over 500 solo recitals,
he has also appeared with every major symphony orchestra in the U.S.
Smith's recordings include "Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher," "Le Rossignol," "Down in the Valley," The Verdi Requiem, A Treasury of Operetta and Bach's B minor Mass.
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