490 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP, example recorded by Pausanias, and already 
alluded to in the account of Epidauria 1 . After 
leaving this Ruin, we returned into the road; 
and quitting the plain, bore off upon our right, 
towards the east, by a rocky ascent along the 
channel of a water-course, towards the regal 
residence of Agamemnon, and city of Perseus, 
built before the War of Troy, full thirteen 
centuries anterior to the Christian aera. Already 
the walls of the Acropolis began to appear 
upon an eminence between two lofty conical 
mountains : the place is now called Carvato. 
Even its Ruins were unknown eighteen hundred 
years ago, when Stralo wrote his account of the 
Peleponnesus : he says of Mycence, that not a 
vestige of the city remained 2 . Eighty of its 
heroes accompanied the Spartans to the defile 
of Thermopylae, and shared with them the glory 
of their immortal deed 3 : this so much excited 
the jealousy of the sister city, Argos, that it 
was never afterwards forgiven: the Arrives, 
stung by the recollection of the opportunity 
(1) Pausan. Corinth, c. 27. See also the preceding Chapter of this 
Volume. 
(2) 'flffrt tut fitiS *%ves itiaifxiffeu -riff MuxniKini* TsXsaij. Strabon. Geng. 
lib. viii. p. 540. Ed. Oxon. 
(3) rausan. Corinth, c. 16. p. 146. 
