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	Tiryns, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Tiryns is the name of a city in Argolis located southeast of the city of Argos.
		Tiryns is famous for its great walls—said to be from 6 to 7.5 meters in thickness—, which were built by the Cyclopes, regarded as different from the CYCLOPES, the one-eyed children of Uranus and Gaia.
		The acropolis of Tiryns was later called Licymna after Licymnius, the bastard son of Electryon 1, son of Perseus 1, the founder of Mycenae.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Tiryns.html (1023 words)

	Tiryns - LoveToKnow 1911
		After the Spartan defeat of Argos in 494 B.C. Tiryns regained temporary independence, and the Tirynthians fought on the OI Greek side at Plataea, while the Argives held aloof.
		Soon after, in 468 B.C., Tiryns was finally destroyed through the jealousy of the Argives, and the site has been deserted ever since, but for a brief occupation in Byzantine times.
		The rock on which Tiryns is built is of an irregular oval shape, about 330 yds.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Tiryns (1482 words)

	Greece - Archeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns
		The archaeological sites of Mycenae and Tiryns are the imposing ruins of the two greatest cities of the Mycenaean civilization, which dominated the eastern Mediterranean world from the 15th to the 12th century B.C. and played a vital role in the development of classical Greek culture.
		Mycenae and Tiryns represent the apogee of the Mycenaean civilization, which laid the foundations for the evolution of later European cultures.
		Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery of Saint John "the Theologian" and the Cave of the Apocalypse on the Island of Pátmos
	worldheritage.heindorffhus.dk /frame-GreeceMycenae.htm (525 words)

	Tiryns
		According to Schliemann, Tiryns was destroyed simultaneously with Mycenae and the palace was burned down.
		When the excavation of Tiryns was resumed in 1905 by a team headed by A. Frickenhaus and continued in the following years, special attention was paid to the question of the time in which the Mycenaean palace there was destroyed.
		In a book on the architecture of the palace of Tiryns, another excavator of that city, K. Muller, arrived at the conclusion that the difference of opinions is irreconcilable, but he shared the view of the scholars who ascribe the palace fire to about -750 and consider the edifice a Greek temple.
	www.varchive.org /dag/tiryns.htm (1502 words)

	Megaliths.Tiryns.O.Paleologos
		The sky blazed and a thin fog raised from the fields, a sea breeze came from the nearby coast which refreshed all, making forget the shingling heat of the day.
		Tiryns " with the beautiful walls ", like its neighbors Mycènes and Argos, known by tradition and archeological excavations, is related to the majority of the legends.
		The excavations attested that the acropolis of Tiryns was constantly occupied during the last five millenia.As a matter of fact, at the time of the excavations, vestiges of all periods were found there dating as well from the antiquity as to byzantine period or the Turkish domination.
	www.paleologos.com /tiryns.htm (525 words)

	Anvient Tyrins, the palace
		et on a bluff in the centre of a plain, the fortress of Tiryns is a Cyclopean structure dating from the 18cBC, a well preserved masterpiece of ancient military architecture.
		According to legend, Tiryns was founded before Mycenae by a certain Proitos aided by Cyclops from Asia Minor.
		The ruins now visible, cover an area measuring 300x45- 100m and comprise the palace on the upper level and on the lower an elliptical precinct enclosing buildings for military, religious and economic use and to house the service quarters.
	greece-private.com /ancient_tiryns.htm (349 words)

	Tiryns
		Tiryns (in ancient greek Τίρυνς; and in modern Τίρυνθα) is a Mycenaean archeological site in the Greek prefecture of Argolis in the Peloponnese peninsula, some kilometres north of Nauplion.
		Tiryns was a hill fort with occupation ranging back seven thousand years, from the beginning of the bronze age.
		According to Mythology Proetus the brother of Acrisius was the founder of Tiryns
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Cities/Tiryns.html (361 words)

	Susan Langdon, section 1 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Starting from the small fragments found by Schliemann and Wilhelm Dörpfeld in their Tiryns excavations of 1884-85, and augmented by Emil Kunze during his 1926 excavations, the pieces gradually were reassembled into a small terracotta shield of Subgeometric style.
		The history of this image --it was depicted on a votive shield, deposited in a ritual context, situated on the citadel of Tiryns, dedicated to Hera, and created during a period of social upheaval, state formation, and political maneuverings-- suggest that there is a lot more to understand about Amazons and Greeks.
		Tiryns and Mycenae may well have had reason to distance themselves materially and mythologically from Argos, but there are also undeniable cultural links among the three cities and indeed the greater Argolid Plain that may further illuminate the meaning of the shield and its imagery.
	www.stoa.org /hopper/text.jsp?doc=Stoa:text:2001.01.0011:section=1&highlight= (7186 words)

	The "Lefkandi I" and Tiryns Cultures
		At Kolonna on Aegina, remains of the Tiryns culture are stratified immediately above a late phase of the EH II period whose architecture is comparable to that of Lerna III of the Korakou culture (a probably fortified settlement within which is the "White House", a 20 x 9 m.
		All in all, the pottery of the Tiryns culture is quite different from that of the Korakou culture of the EH IIA period.
		As it is presently understood, the Tiryns culture of the EH III period appears to be the result of a process of "cultural fusion" between the Korakou and "Lefkandi I" cultures, one which sometimes appears to have been achieved through violence (e.g.
	projectsx.dartmouth.edu /history/bronze_age/lessons/les/8.html (3025 words)

	Detail Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tiryns was ideally located, atop a rocky hill in the southeast Argive plain, beside the sea (which now lies a mile away, due to coastal changes since ancient times).
		The Greeks' arrival probably is indicated in the destruction of the pre-Greek palace known as the House of the Tiles, at nearby Lerna (ca.
		Tiryns' prominence in this epoch is reflected in Greek Myth, which claimed that the hero Heracles was born there or that his family came from there.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0508 (387 words)

	Tiryns
		Tiryns was associated in ancient legend with Perseus and with Eurysthus, in whose service Hercules performed his twelve labors.
		Tiryns survived into the classical period but was destroyed by Argos about 468 BCE.
		Panoramic view of the fortification walls along the western side of the citadel of Tiryns.
	www.grisel.net /tiryns.htm (409 words)

	American Journal of Archaeology / Article Abstract
		Excavations and auger cores have revealed the Holocene stratigraphy in the vicinity of the Late Bronze Age citadel of Tiryns.
		In LH IIIB/C this stream abandoned its bed and shifted to the north of the Tiryns knoll.
		To protect the lower town from future floods the inhabitants of Tiryns installed an artificial river diversion consisting of a 10-m-high dam and a 1.5-km-long canal.
	www.ajaonline.org /archive/98.2/zangger_eberhard.html (170 words)

	Tiryns - Definition, explanation
		Tiryns (in ancient greek Τίρυνς;) is a Mycenaean archeological site in the Greek nomos of Argolis in Peloponnese peninsula, some kilometres north of Nauplion.
		Tiryns was a hill fort with occupation ranging back seven thousand years, from the beginning of the bronze age.
		The famous megaron of the palace of Tirynsis has a large reception hall, the main room of which had a throne placed against the right wall and a central hearth bordered by four Minoan-style wooden columns that served as supports for the roof.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/t/ti/tiryns.php (272 words)

	Royal Houses of Argolis
		When he gave Tiryns to Perseus, while he received his late brother's kingdom, his descendants would become involved in the greatest war before the Trojan War, which was known as the Seven Against Thebes.
		Eurystheus ruled Mycenae and Tiryns, to whom Heracles had to perform the Twelve Labours for Eurystheus, to atone for his murder of his own sons.
		Genealogy: House of Proëtus, Aeolids in Argos, and the Houses of Seers.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/argolis.html (3341 words)

	Tiryns
		On the acropolis of Tiryns a large deposit of 8th-5th-century pottery and cult objects and 7th-century architectural fragments was unearthed.
		If the palace of Tiryns stood 500 years longer than the other Bronze Age palaces, if it survived the fire of 1200 B.C. on the citadel and remained visible to 8th-century Greeks, then the architectural and Homeric problems are solved.
		At Tiryns we have run into 500-700-year problems with triglyphs, with propylaea, with Homer and 8th-century temple plans, with the architecture and archaeology of the palace, and with the temple votives.
	www.varchive.org /schorr/tiryns.htm (3154 words)

	Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology: Tiryns (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The walls of ancient Tiryns were said to be "Cyclopean" because they could only have been put in place by giants - or a hero like Hercules.
		Some said the huge stones of its walls could only have been put in place by Heracles, whose myth is associated with the city.
		Heracles would have been king of Tiryns had not Hera delayed his birth.
	www.mythweb.com /encyc/gallery/tiryns_c.html (83 words)

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