Tiryns

[tir-inz]

noun

1. an ancient city in Greece, in Peloponnesus: destroyed in 486 b.c. by the Argives; excavated ruins include Cyclopean walls forming part of a great fortress.

Example Sentences

He had been ordered by King Iobates of Lycia in Anatolia, whose countryside the Chimera was ravaging, to kill the beast; but as is typical of Greek myth, Bellerophon’s monster slaying had all begun with an unsolicited romantic entanglement with the daughter of another king, Proitos of Tiryns, in the Peloponnese.

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In the century and a half since Schliemann’s great discoveries, the excavation of other Mycenaean palatial sites — including Tiryns, Gla and Pylos — continued to expand the contemporary understanding of the Bronze Age world.

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“Army officers such as Ringel were not only excavating and looting antiquities for personal wealth, but they were also responsible for the destruction of antiquities in Crete, Macedonia, Tiryns, Assini and Samos,” said Vassilios Petrakos, a scholar who is curator of antiquities and general-secretary of the Archaeological Society of Athens.

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That’s unlike the looser sprawl seen in the famous contemporary citadels of Mycenae and Tiryns, each a fraction of Glas’ size but much greater in importance and power.

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Their descendants, a century or so later, built the great palaces at Pylos, Mycenae and Tiryns, places mentioned by Homer.

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