MYCENAE  , one of the most

ancient cities of Greece, was situated on a hill above the northern extremity of the fertile ceedingly strong, and it commands all the roads leading from Corinth and Achaea into the Argive plain . The walls of Mycenae are the greatest monument that remains of the Heroic age in Greece; part of them is similar in style and doubtless con-temporary in date with the walls of the neighbouring town Tiryns . There can therefore be little doubt that the two towns were the strongholds of a single race, Tiryns commanding the sea-coast and Mycenae the inner country .