THE EARLY AGE OF GREECE VOL.I by W.Ridgeway 1901

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WHO WERE THE MAKERS ? 103
the wall of Mycenae are constructed. It is therefore inferred
with good reason that the wall of Tiryns
is older than that
of Mycenae. We may certainly say that as it does not show
the two later styles of masonry which are seen at Mycenae,
it did not undergo any such modifications of architecture as
were effected at Mycenae, and that therefore the political
energy of Tiryns had run its course before the ashlar and
polygonal styles had come into use.
The evidence therefore, which is afforded by the different
avenues to the Heraeum, and the styles of architecture still
visible at Tiryns and Mycenae, is in strict agreement with the
history of Ai-golis contained in tradition.
Epidaurus. 'J'he legends gi\e us little about this town.
Its epon^'mous hero was Epidaurus, but "who dwelt in the
country befoi-e Epidaurus came," Pansanias knew not: 'the
natives could not inform me wh(j were the descendants of
They say, however, that the last king who reigned
P]pidaurus.
over them before the Dorians came into Pel()p(jmiesus was
Pityreus, a descendant of Ion, the son of Xuthns. He, they
say, surrendered the land to Deiphontes and the Argives
without stiiking a blow, and retii'ed with his ])eo|)le
to Athens,
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w'here he settled (
p[). 1S7, 050)'. Accotding to the Eleans
Epidaurus was a son of :
Pelops but according to the Ai-gives
and the e[)ic called the (freaf Kneae the father of Epidaurus
was Argos th(; son of Zeus, but the Epidaurians father
Epidaurus on A])ollo."
The ])aucity of ti-adition in the cas
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