Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller.

  • Karl Otfried Müller
Date:
1852
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    £Xe<p«VTOf. Od, iv. 72. X«Xx£0< (asv yoi^ ralyfii kXy}7^»lur 'iu^cc x.x\ h^x ef efgyof ajyiJgso/ li arx^^ol hj HaTotu^w ovla, xQyv^Bov S' £(p' v7re^°iv^iov, XPvaen xog^j^w, in the fairy palace of Alcinous, Od. vii. 86, eXscp^vrdSfTo/ So^o/ in Asia, Eurip. Iph. Aul. 683. Comp. §. 48. Rem. 2. 3. §. 49, 2. 48. The most remarkable of these princely fabrics of the 1 heroic ages were the treasuries, dome-shaped buildings which seem to have been destined for the preservation of costly armour, goblets, and other family heir-looms {xhmXio). Similar to these generally subterranean buildings were the 2 Oudol of many ancient temples, cellar-like and very massive constructions, which likewise served in an especial manner for the preservation of valuable property. Finally, corresponding 3 forms were not unfrequently given to the thalami, secret chambers for the women, and even to the prisons of that early period. 1. Thesaurus of Minyas (Paus. ix, 38. Squire in Walpole's Memoirs, p. 336. DodweU i. p. 227) of white marble, 70 feet in diameter. Views, pi. 13 J—of Atbeus and his sons at Mycense (Paus. ii, 16.), one of which was opened by Lord Elgin (s. Gell, Argolis, t. 4—6. Squire, p. 652. Dodwell ii. p. 236. Views, pi. 9,10. Descr. de la Mor^e, ii, 66 sqq. Pouqueville iv. p. 162; above all Donaldson, Antiq. of Athens: Supplement, p. 25). Dia- meter and height about 48 feet. The ruins of three others are to be seen there. Leake, Morea, ii. p. 382 sqq. Views, pi. 11. [Comp. §. 291 R. 5, and also Col. Mure on the royal tombs of the heroic age in the Rhein. Mus. 1838. vi. S. 240, who makes a striking comparison with the dungeon of Antigone in Sophocles, a f/,vnfAuov Kxrxyiiov according to Aristophanes of Byzantium in substance. Col. Leake, Peloponnesiaca, a supplem. 1846. p. 258, opposed to his view. But it receives a strong confirmation from a tomb at Caere, together with which Canina (Cere ant, tv. 3—5.9) also gives a representation of that at Mycenae, see p. 94, also Em. Braun, Bull. 1836, p. 57. 58. 1838. p. 173, and Abeken, Bull. 1841. p. 41, and Mittelitalien 8. 234.]—of Hyrieus and Augeas built by the Minyans Trophonius and Agamedes (Orchomenus, p. 95. Comp. the Cyclian Eugammon in Proclus). —Thesaurus (of Menelaus) discovered by Gropius not far from Amyclje; [W. Mure, Tour in Greece, ii, 246, Tomb of Menelaus, who was buried according to tradition at Amyclse, or of Amyclas, of the ancient Amy- clseean kings :] traces at Pharsalus. Autolycus, son of DasdaUon (the In- genious), ■TT'Kfiarx xXi-TTTuii sByiaxv^ii^eu, Pherecyd. Fragm. 18 st. Od. xix,410, 2. Oi/ioc, foundation, socle, hence household, but also a subterranean repository; the XaiVoj ovlo; at Delphi was a thesaurus, II. ix, 404, which the Minyan architects are said to have built with Cyclopean masses of rock (Hymn to the Pyth. Ap. 115. Steph. B. s. v. AgA<po/). [It is stated by others as well asL. Ross in his 'EyxeiQtliou, §. 67, 2, that this is not cor- rect.] Even the x^'hKiag ovhoi of Colonos in Sophocles is also conceived as a walled abyss (comp. II. viii, 15. Theog. 811. lof^oio tqu; xIvtoi with treasures, H. in Merc. 247). The v\poQoipos Six'Axfios of Odysseus, Menelaus, Priam, placed deep in the earth and filled with all sorts of valuable things (Od. ii, 337. xv, 98. xxi, 8. II. vi, 288), is also a sort of thesaurus. Ac- cording to Eurip. Hecabc 1010, a treasury at Ilium was indicated by a