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MYTHICAL ART.
give them more the appearance of the 'eternal rocks' of nature (figs.
1-4) than of human work, were as great a riddle to the ancient Greeks
Fig. 1. Fig. 2.
CYCLOPEAN MASONRY.
as to ourselves. They could only account for them by supposing that
they were the work of a race of giants, called Cyclopes, with whom they
Fig. 3.
at myckn.'k
peopled the primaeval world, who could alone be capable of transporting
such enormous masses of stone, 'the very least of which,' says Pau-
MYTHICAL ART.
give them more the appearance of the 'eternal rocks' of nature (figs.
1-4) than of human work, were as great a riddle to the ancient Greeks
Fig. 1. Fig. 2.
CYCLOPEAN MASONRY.
as to ourselves. They could only account for them by supposing that
they were the work of a race of giants, called Cyclopes, with whom they
Fig. 3.
at myckn.'k
peopled the primaeval world, who could alone be capable of transporting
such enormous masses of stone, 'the very least of which,' says Pau-