Gell, William: The itinerary of Greece: With a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an account of the monuments of antiquity at present existing in that country (London, 1810)

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sculpture at Mycenae is attributed, came originally, from Syria,
(Scholiast of Euripides) which was a province of Media, Herodotus,
Book 1, where the sun was particularly revered, into Lycia, where
Apollo was equally adored, and from thence emigrated into Europe
with Sthenoboea, a princess of that country, when she came to marry
Proetus, the King of Tiryns; and this might account for the worship
of the sun at Mycenae without difficulty.

It may be added that the Phoenicians also, who traded with the
Argives, Herodotus Book 1, might have introduced the religion of
Asia; but it must be confessed that the whole may be traced to
Egypt, and the similarity of the sculptures in Persia to those at Mycenae,
only renders it more probable that the objects represented, such as
pillars, lions, and balls, referred to the same subject, though they are
of much more recent date in Persia; for Diodorus informs us that
Cambyses, who lived in the sixth century before Christ, not only took
ornaments, but even artists from Egypt, to adorn his palace of Perse-
polis; but these artists and ornaments came from Thebes, which the
Egyptians called the city of the Sun. Diodorus, Book 2.

There is no reason why Danaus should not have brought with him
from Egypt the religion of that country, and the Cyclopes were em-
ployed by Proetus only three generations after the arrival of the new
colony.

It would be endless to cite the authorities for the connexion of the
Cyclopes with Fire, Vulcan, and the Sun. They were, in fact,