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The Mask of Agamemnon was created from a single thick gold sheet, heated and hammered against a wooden background with the details chased on later with a sharp tool. [6] Following his discoveries at the site, Schliemann notified King George of Greece. [7] He is supposed to have told the king in a telegraph, "I have gazed upon the face of ...
Schliemann claimed that one of the masks he discovered was the mask of King Agamemnon, and that this was the burial site of the legendary king from Homer's Iliad. [4]The masks were likely direct representations of the deceased, symbolizing a continuation of the dead's identity in death, similar to funerary statues and incisions, immortalizing an idealized depiction of the deceased.
Tamil tradition mentions academies of poets that composed classical literature over thousands of years before the common era, a belief that scholars consider a myth. Some scholars date the Sangam literature between c. 300 BCE and 300 CE, [ 6 ] while others variously place this early classical Tamil literature period a bit later and more ...
Alagar Kovil. Ariyapatatha Tamilagam. Tho. Paramasivan (Tamil: தொ. பரமசிவன்; 1950 – 24 December 2020 [1]), often known as Tho Pa, was an Indian Tamil anthropologist, writer, folklorist, archeologist and professor. He was the first graduate in his family. He grew up to serve as a professor of Tamil at Manonmaniam Sundaranar ...
Agattiyam (Tamil: அகத்தியம் ⓘ), also spelled as Akattiyam, [1] according to Tamil tradition, was the earliest book on Tamil grammar. It is a non-extant text, traditionally believed to have been compiled and taught in the First Sangam, (circa 300 BC) by Agattiyar (Agastya) to twelve students. [2][3][4] Agastya is one of the ...
University of Coimbra, Portugal. Henrique Henriques (also known as Anrique Anriquez) [1] (1520–1600) was a Portuguese Jesuit priest and missionary who spent most of his life in missionary activities in South India. After his initial years in Goa he moved to Tamil Nadu where he mastered Tamil and wrote several books including a dictionary.
Mycenology. Death mask, known as the Mask of Agamemnon, Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 16th century BC, probably the most famous artifact of Mycenaean Greece. [ 1] Mycenology is the study of the Mycenaean Greek language and the culture and institutions recorded in that language. It emerged as a discipline auxiliary to classical philology in 1953 ...
Author Hari Gopalan Citar states in the text that he wrote this book on a Friday, the twenty-seventh day of the Tamil month of Karthikai (13 December) in the year 1839 CE. [2] The author claims that God woke him up during his sleep and commissioned him to record his dictation. Akilathirattu was recorded on palm leaves until 1939, when it was ...