A. History of the Site and Excavations to Schliemann (1884/85) (CT)
Named in the Iliad (2,559) as τειχιόεσσα ('great-walled'), the site with the pre-Greek name Tiryns (T.) was well-known to the Greeks, primarily through the 'Cyclopean' walls, which were, according to Pausanias (9,36), "all that remains of the ruins", and in legend th…