Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/greeceinbronzeagOOverm GREECE in the Bronze Age GREECE in the Bronze Age EMILY VERMEULE Chicago and London THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS Library of Congress Catalog Card amber 64-23427 The University of Chicago Press. Chicago & London The University of Toronto Press, Toronto 5, Cariada © /%•; by The University of Chicago .■111 rights reserved. Pub!if bed 796-7 Thud Impression 7967 Printed in the United States of America To Mary Hamilton Swindler Not even those who lived long ago before us and were sons of our lords, the gods, themselves half-divine, came to an old age and the end of their days without hardship and danger, nor did they live forever. Simonides (translated by Richmond Lattimore)