i68 Primitive Greece : Mvcenian Art. terms the second city, to build which they first levelled out the surface into a kind of esplanade, and supported it by an embank- ment six metres deep, consisting like the platform of potsherds and imported earth. Not only is the mode of construction and the pottery found here entirely different from what we see in the first village, but they also exhibit considerable advance. That the existence of this little town was undisturbed for hundreds C;;i r» <,!/,,/ yj ami «/* t/«A. Fig. 38. — Plan of dtadel, showing the'state of the of years, Is proved by numerous alterations effected both in the walls, the city gates, and the erections within the enclosure. A time came, however, when it was overtaken by a terrible disaster in the form of a general conflagration. From that day until the Macedonian age, when it again assumed some importance, a few miserable huts, loosely and coarsely built, alone stood here. The admiration of Alexander for Homer is well known ; he honoured
