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

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WHO WERE THE MAKERS? 119
in the Iliad. In the Catalogue a contingent of no less than
sixty ships was manned by the men of Arcady ' :
ot 8 e^^of WpKahirjv viro Ys.vWrjvrj'^ opo^ alirv,
AIttvtiov irapa tvixjSov, iv dvepe
Kal WavTiveTjv ipareivi'jv,
TVfj,(f)r]X6v r el-^ov Kal T[appaaii]v evefxavTo.
Who was this Aepytus, whose grave was so famous as to be a
well-known landmark when the Iliad was composed, and what
was the nature of this tomb ? Answers are f(U"
ready each
(juestion. We shall take them in reverse order. Pausanias^ saw
this very monument in the second centurv A.l). "The grave of
Aepytus I looked at with spt^cial interest, because Homer in
his verses referring to the Ai'cadians made mention of the tomb
of Aepytus: it is a mound of earth of no givat
by a circular kerbing of stone."
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VIII. IC), ri, ((TTi fxtv ovv yrj'i X'^M'^ or fxeya \iOov Kfi-qirlSi tv ki'kXu) nfpLfxolj.(vov.
It is iin])ortant to notice tliat I'ausanias (losciibcs other totnbs similar
in con>tru('tinn to tliat of Atpytus in Art^adia. One is tliat of Pliociis tlie
son of Aeaciis at .Ve^^'ina. wlio was slain by his half-brother Peleus. '
An altar
that lises but little above the gicMind" was said to be the tomb of Acaciis.
Beside tlie Aeaceum is the prave of I'liocus "consistiii}^ of a mound of eaitli surrounded
by a circular basement and surmounted by a rouj^di stone.'' (ii. 2!). D.)
The other was that of Oenomaus near Olymjiia, "'a mound of eartli enclosed by
a retainin;.' wall of stones." (vi. '21. ;5.) That Oenninaus belonj^'ed to the ])re-
.\che.'(n ]ieii()d is certain, as the stoi\' of the coniint^' of I'elops and llie nuirder
of ( >enouiaus is iiisejjarably bound up witli the Aehean coiicjuest of l*el()])oniiesus.
In the case of I'hocus we cannot pi-oduce the smiuc evidence from the le;,'ends,
for he is the son of .^eacu-, but Ae^'ina and Salamis are not only
lich in
Myceiiean remains, but si^.'ns of a transitiuii fioni the ^'enuine .Mycenean f^irm
of inhumation to the Hnineric ciemation have been discovered iii the .M\eenean
cemetc-ry at Salamis. i'au>aiiias saw a similar tomb aNo in .\rcailia : "at
I'hoezon is a tomb encloM-d by a base of stone and li^ilif,' but little .aliuVf tlie
ijiound " "'I'hey say that the tund) i- that of .\reilhouurnamed ('uryuetes,
Club. man,' on acci.unt of liis weajion " (\iil. 11, 4; yt II. vii. 1(1, il-J-'/./.l.
The Krave of Aui/e. dau^/liter of .\le\is of Te^'ea, who became wife of '{'fUt bias,
was at I'er^ramus on the Caicu- :
is a mound (d'e.-iith enclnseii by a ^tolle
base and >urinouiite