Gardner, Percy: New chapters in Greek history: historical results of recent excavations in Greece and Asia Minor (London, 1892)

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

THE VERIFICATION OF ANCIENT HISTORY.

Scarceness and unsatisfactory character of ancient authorities, i.
Desirability of verification, 3. Actual and ideal history, 5.
Possible tests of historical fact, geographic, 8 : inscriptions, 11 :
works of art, 14: coins, 15. Instance, Mycenaean history, 17.
Great extent of materials for verification of history, 20. The
verification of history by the imagination, 22. Principal means,
travel and archaeology, 24.

CHAPTER II.

PHRYGIA AND TROAS.

The exploration of Asia Minor, 28. Inconsistent accounts of the
Phrygians in ancient writers, 30. The Phrygians properly a
wanior clan who ruled a Canaanite population, 31. The region
about Mount Sipylus, 34. The Greater Phrygia on the San-
garius, 35. Reliefs of this district, 37. Great Phrygian tombs,
40. The Troad : excavations at Hissarlik, 44. Correspondences
and discrepancies with the Iliad, 46. Exceptional finds of the
Mycenaean class, 51. The Palace, 53.

CHAPTER III.

MYCENAE AND THE ISLANDS.

Geography of Argolis, 56. Legends of Mycenae, 58. Pausanias at
Mycenae, 59. Subterranean treasuries, 61. Schliemann's dis-
covery of rock-tombs, 63. Subsequent excavations, 67. Orcho-
mcnus, 69. Bapheion, 70. Close relations of art to Egypt, 72.
Mr. Petrie's date, 74. Burials at Mycenae probably re-inter-
ments, 76. The circle of stones later, 79. Indications of con-
nection with Phrygia, Si. Comparison with legends accepted
by Thucydides, 83. Date of Achaean civilization, 84. The
Carian theory, 86. Mycenaean and earlier remains in the
Islands, 87.