OF REMOTE AGES. 337 
that in his time its walls were considered wonder- 
ful and characteristic. 
Pausanias* tells us that it was believed by 
the Greeks, (or rather known, for he says sae 
Barnes?) that Mycene was founded by Perseus, 
and that the Gate of Lions was the work of 
Cyclopes, who fortified Tyrins for Pretus.t 
Strabo, who confirms the statement of its founda- 
tion by Perseus, declares that in his time (A. D. 
20.) no vestiges of it were extant{. Huripides 
mentions it in seven or eight passages in his 
plays,§ and always as the work of the Cyclopes, 
and once as the city of Perseus. 
This is (I believe) the sum of the information 
we possess, regarding ancient fortifications of the 
amorphous style. It seems, then, perfectly clear, 
that the ancients universally attributed them to a 
people called the Cyclopes. ‘‘ Who, then, and 
*B. i.e: 15. 
{ B. ii. ec. 16. 
{ B. viii. 547. 
§ Orestes, v. 963. 
Iphigenia in Aulide, v. 152, 265, 534, 1500. 
Iphigen. in Tauride, v. 844. 
Troades, v. 1088. 
Hercules furens, v. 944, 998. 
Electra, y. 1158. 
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