George E. Mylonas
Γεώργιος Εμμανουήλ Μυλωνάς
A middle-aged man in a suit, with receding hair and a neat moustache
Mylonas in 1950
Born
Georgios Emmanouel Mylonas

December 21 [O.S. December 9] 1898
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
DiedApril 15, 1988(1988-04-15) (aged 89)
Athens, Greece
Resting placeMykines, Greece
OccupationClassical archaeologist
Known forExcavations, including Grave Circle B at Mycenae
Spouse
Lena Papazoglou
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(m. 1925)​
Awards
Academic background
Education
ThesisThe Neolithic Period in Greece (1927)
Academic work
Institutions
Notable students
Military career
AllegianceKingdom of Greece
Service/branchHellenic Army
Years of service1919–1923
WarsGreco-Turkish War (1919–1922)

George Emmanuel Mylonas (Greek: Γεώργιος Εμμανουήλ Μυλωνάς, romanized: Georgios Emmanouel Mylonas; December 21 [O.S. December 9] 1898 – April 15, 1988)[lower-alpha 1] was a Greek archaeologist of ancient Greece and Aegean prehistory. He is known for his numerous excavations, particularly at Olynthus, Eleusis and at Mycenae, where he made the first archaeological study and publication of Grave Circle B, the earliest known monumentalised burials at the site.

Mylonas was born in Smyrna, then part of the Ottoman Empire, and received an elite education. He enrolled in 1919 at the University of Athens to study classics, and joined the Greek Army, where he fought in the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922. He witnessed the destruction of Smyrna in September 1922, and was subsequently taken prisoner; he was recaptured after a brief escape, but eventually secured money from his American contacts to bribe his way to release in 1923.

In 1924, Mylonas began working for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, with which he retained a lifelong association. He became its first bursar the following year, and took part in excavations at Corinth, Nemea and Olynthus under its auspices. After receiving his Ph.D from the University of Athens in 1927, he moved to Johns Hopkins University to study under David Moore Robinson, his excavation director from Olynthus. Mylonas received a second Ph.D the following year, then held a teaching post at the University of Chicago until 1930. After a brief return to Greece, during which he taught at a gymnasium and made his first excavations at Eleusis, he was hired by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1931, before moving to Washington University in St. Louis in 1933. He remained there for most of his career, becoming a full professor in 1938, serving as department chair between 1939 and 1964, and being promoted to distinguished professor in 1965.

Mylonas excavated and published widely, working at sites including Pylos, Artemision, Mekyberna, Polystylos and Aspropotamos. His approach to fundraising for his projects, involving intense engagement with the wealthier citizens of St. Louis and cultivation of the local press, has been characterised as both pioneering and highly successful. Along with John Papadimitriou, he was given responsibility for the excavation of Mycenae's Grave Circle B in the early 1950s, and from 1957 until 1985 excavated on the citadel of the site. His excavations helped to establish the chronological relationships between Mycenae's structures, which had been excavated piecemeal over the preceding century, and to determine the function of the site's Cult Center, to which he gave its name. He returned to Greece in 1969, where he was prominent in the Archaeological Society of Athens and in efforts to conserve the monuments of the Acropolis of Athens.

Mylonas received numerous honours and awards, including the Order of George I, the Royal Order of the Phoenix and the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America, of which he was the first foreign-born president. His work at Mycenae has been credited with bringing coherence to the previously scattered and sporadically-published record of excavation at the site. At the same time, his practice of arguing for correspondence between the archaeological record and ancient mythical traditions, particularly concerning the Trojan War and the Eleusinian Mysteries, was controversial in his day and has generally been discredited since.

Early life

George Emmanuel Mylonas was born on December 21 [O.S. December 9] 1898 to a Greek-speaking family in Smyrna in Ionia, then part of the Ottoman Empire.[2] According to a 1958 profile, he first took an interest in archaeology at the age of eight, when his father's gardener unearthed an ancient burial on the family property.[3] Mylonas attended Smyrna's Evangelical School, considered the most important Greek school in the city, until 1915,[4] and subsequently graduated with a bachelor's degree from the American-run International College of Smyrna in 1918.[5] He entered the University of Athens in 1919, joining the second year of its course in classics.[6] where he was a classmate of John Papadimitriou, later an archaeologist with the Greek Archaeological Service, and was taught by the archaeologist Christos Tsountas, who had excavated at the Bronze Age site of Mycenae and at prehistoric sites throughout Greece.[7]

During the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, Mylonas joined the Greek Army and was deployed to Turkey as part of the Army of Asia Minor.[8] He was in Smyrna when the city was destroyed by the Turks in September 1922,[9] where delivered a Christian sermon in Greek on the morning on Sunday, September 10 [O.S. August 28], for refugees who had sheltered in the chapel of the International College.[10] While fleeing from Smyrna, he was captured on the island of Samos and imprisoned at Manisa and Smyrna;[11] he was tortured during his captivity and almost killed.[8] After escaping from the camp at Smyrna in early March 1923, he obtained passage on a French merchant ship, whose crew once again handed him to the Turks.[11] He was helped to survive by American friends, his former teachers at the International College,[12] who lent him money to pay bribes and secure his release.[13]

Early archaeological career

A slightly balding white man in a formal suit, seated, his head resting on his left hand
David Moore Robinson, Mylonas's early mentor and lifelong friend, photographed in 1909

After his release, Mylonas returned to Athens, arriving in April 1923.[11] According to Michael Cosmopoulos, who later studied under Mylonas, he may have suffered from post-traumatic stress in the early years after his release.[14] In the second half of 1924,[7] he was hired as a translator at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA), one of Greece's foreign schools of archaeology.[15] The ASCSA had assisted in the evacuation and resettlement of Greek refugees from Ionia and employed many of them in the construction of its Gennadius Library, conducted under the architect W. Stuart Thompson between September 1923 and 1925.[16] According to Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, later the archivist of the ASCSA, Mylonas may have been introduced to the school by Hazel Dorothy Hansen, an American archaeologist who probably studied with Mylonas at Athens.[7] He acted as an interpreter for Thompson and wrote his own doctoral dissertation, The Neolithic Period in Greece, in his free time.[2] From 1 July 1925, he worked as the ASCSA's first bursar on a part-time basis; he was also seconded as an assistant to Gilbert Campbell Scoggins, the librarian of the Gennadius.[17]

Mylonas worked on the excavations of Corinth under the ASCSA's director Bert Hodge Hill, who led them until 1926;[18] between 1923 and 1928, he worked with Carl Blegen, Hill's lifelong friend who also served as assistant and acting director of the ASCSA, at the sites of Nemea and Aghiorghitika.[19] He received his Ph.D summa cum laude from the University of Athens in 1927,[20] and taught at the same institution.[21] In 1928, he resigned from his bursary post at the ASCSA and emigrated to the United States to study at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore under David Moore Robinson, the excavator of the classical site of Olynthus in the Chalkidiki region of northern Greece.[22] He was with Robinson as a representative of the ASCSA, in whose name the dig was conducted, for the Olynthus excavation season of February 17 to June 2 1928.[23]

Academic career in the United States

Mylonas was awarded his second Ph.D by Johns Hopkins in 1928; his dissertation was published as the first volume in the series presenting the results of the Olynthus excavations.[15] In the same year, he took a temporary teaching job at the University of Chicago, which allowed him to remain in the US until 1930.[11] On his return, he directed the excavations of the Mycenaean site of Aghios Kosmasin Attica,[2] under the auspices of the Archaeological Service,[24] which began in 1930 and continued in 1931.[2] He also made a study of the topography of Attica and taught part-time at the Ioannis Metaxas gymnasium, a high school.[11] He was at Olynthus with Robinson for the 1931 excavation season,[25] having been sent by the ASCSA in response to the school's dissatisfaction with Robinson's excavation methods.[26] During the same season, Mylonas excavated at Eleusis alongside the Greek archaeologist Konstantinos Kouroniotis.[11] Mylonas returned to the United States later in 1931: he was hired by William Abbott Oldfather, the dean of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as a temporary assistant professor on an annual salary of $2,200 (equivalent to $38,539 in 2022).[27] Mylonas excavated at Olynthus in 1932 and 1933,[2] and at Eleusis each year from 1932 until 1934.[2]

Wide shot; several open graves can be seen with the citadel of Mycenae behind
Grave Circle B at Mycenae, excavated by Mylonas and Papadimitriou in 1952–1953

In 1933, Mylonas was hired on a permanent basis at Washington University in St. Louis as an assistant professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology.[28] Robinson had previously tried to manoeuvre another of his students, James Walter Graham, into the position. Mylonas wrote to Robinson, crediting him with securing him the position through his influence and contacts.[25] Mylonas became a naturalized US citizen in 1937, though spent most of his time in Greece.[25] By 1938, he had been promoted to full professor.[29] He served on the ASCSA's managing committee between 1937 and 1939,[30] returned to Olynthus as co-director of the excavation with Robinson in March–June 1938,[31] and made exploratory excavations at Mekyberna – the port of Olynthus – Polystylos and Aspropotamos, all in Greek Macedonia, in the same year.[2]

Mylonas became chair of Washington's Department of Art History and Archaeology in 1939.[32] He returned briefly to the University of Illinois for the 1939–1940 academic year, before resuming his post at Washington.[11] During the Second World War, he orchestrated the founding of the Greek War Relief Organization, a charity which raised money to alleviate poverty in Greece.[33] He also delivered lessons to officers of the United States Army on the Eastern Mediterranean, and wrote An Introduction to the History of the Balkan States, which aimed to make a historical case against the legitimacy of the annexation of Greek Macedonia by Bulgaria and was published in 1946.[2] He returned to the ASCSA's managing committee in the same year.[34]

The Greek government suspended all archaeological investigation in the country after the war, a state of affairs which persisted until 1952;[35] Mylonas spent the 1951–1952 academic year on a Fulbright scholarship, teaching at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (as the University of Athens had been renamed).[36] Simultaneously, he served as an annual professor at the ASCSA,[37] of which he was elected vice president in 1951,[38] and led its 1951–1952 "Summer Session" for visiting archaeology students.[39] Once the ban on excavation was lifted, Mylonas entered what Vogeikoff-Brogan calls "an excavation frenzy", working at Pylos under Blegen,[35] at Aghios Kosmas,[2] and at Eleusis in the same season.[35] In November 1951, he visited what would become known as Grave Circle B at Mycenae,[40] which had been discovered by the ephor Seraphim Charitonidis during restoration of the nearby Tomb of Clytemnestra.[41] In July 1952, along with John Papadimitriou, he was given responsibility for the full excavation of the Grave Circle,[40] which commenced on July 3.and continued until September, by which point seven tombs had been uncovered.[42] He also excavated, in September of the same year, the underwater shipwreck first discovered at Artemision in 1926.[43] Mylonas and Papadimitriou returned to Grave Circle B in the summer of 1953, uncovering eight more tombs.[44]

Mylonas held a Fulbright Professorship at Athens in 1954,[45] and spent periods throughout the 1950s at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[33] His M.A. students in the late 1950s included the Anglo-American archaeologist Elizabeth Schofield, later known for her work at Knossos, at Lefkandi and on the island of Kea.[46] Between 1952 and 1957, he directed the excavation of the Western Cemetery of Eleusis,[47] which uncovered the Eleusis Amphora, considered among the finest examples of proto-Attic art, in 1954.[48] From 1957 until 1985, he led excavations on the citadel of Mycenae.[49] He re-excavated most of the acropolis of the site: Tsountas had cleared it in the late nineteenth century, but died before publishing the results of his work.[50] Much of Mylonas's work on the acropolis concerned the establishment of a chronological sequence for its various constructions, particularly the palace and the fortifications surrounded it; he traced the initial fortification of the site to the fourteenth century BCE, with further development throughout the thirteenth century.[51] He also investigated the site's Cult Center,[52] to which he gave its modern name,[53] and areas of settlement to the north and west of the citadel.[52] He served as president of the Archaeological Institute of America between 1957 and 1960,[21] becoming the first foreign-born person to hold the post,[54] and held a visiting professorship at the ASCSA in 1963–1964, during which he conducted a tour of Crete and offered a course in Mycenaean civilization.[55] In 1964, he stepped down as department chair at Washington; he was made the inaugural Rosa May Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in 1965.[56]

Return to Greece and later life

A marble tomb in a churchyard, with a prominent Christian cross decoration
Mylonas's tomb at Mykines

Mylonas retired from Washington in 1969 and returned to Greece.[25] He served on the council of the Archaeological Society of Athens, a learned society with a prominent role in the excavation and conservation of archaeological heritage, between 1969 and 1971, was its vice president from 1978 to 1979, and its secretary general from 1979 until 1986.[11] He also served as chairman of the Committee for the Preservation of the Acropolis Monuments, a pressure group which aimed to raise official awareness of the threat from air pollution to the monuments of the Acropolis of Athens, between 1978 and 1986.[57] He died in Athens, two weeks after suffering a heart attack at his home, on April 15, 1988.[58] He was buried at Mykines, the modern village adjacent to the site of Mycenae.[32]

Mylonas appeared in Michael Wood's televised series, In Search of the Trojan War, in 1985. In an interview conducted at the citadel of Mycenae, Mylonas spoke of coming to the site by night to converse with the mythical king Agamemnon.[59] He once said that the task of the archaeologist was to "infer from withered flowers the hour of their bloom".[60] A Festschrift in his honour was published in four volumes by the Archaeological Society between 1986 and 1990.[35]

Personal life

Mylonas met Lena Papazoglou, another Greek refugee from Ionia, shortly after his return to Greece in 1923; the couple married in 1925.[15] Mylonas remained a friend of Robinson, his former doctoral advisor, throughout his life; upon his death in 1958, Robinson left Mylonas a Greek vase from his collection and $20,000 (equivalent to $202,860 in 2022) towards his research.[25] According to the Canadian archaeologist Mary Ross Ellingson, who excavated with Mylonas at Olynthus, he was formal and aloof in his manners, preferring to address fellow excavation staff by their surnames and as "Mr." or "Miss."[15]

Mylonas had a son, Alexander, who died in a car accident in 1959.[61] He also had three daughters,[21] one of whom, Ione Mylonas Shear, became an archaeologist,[62] and frequently assisted her father in his excavations at Mycenae.[63] Another daughter, Eunice Hale, married the artist and teacher Robert Beverly Hale.[64] Lena Mylonas died in 1993.[35]

Honors, legacy and assessment

Mylonas was a prolific writer and lecturer, publishing around 150 articles in academic journals and delivering over 1000 public lectures.[65] At Mycenae, his excavations uncovered tombs and structures outside the citadel and established the function of the Cult Center within it. His investigations of the citadel's fortifications established their date, while his excavations of the approach-routes to the palace revealed the full extent of the structure. Spyros Iakovidis, who succeeded Mylonas as director of the excavation of Mycenae, credits him with connecting the work of Tsountas, which was prolific but largely unpublished, with that of Alan Wace, who excavated various areas of the site throughout the first half of the twentieth century.[66] His 1927 dissertation has been called the first publication to systematically synthesize the Neolithic material from the Greek mainland and the island of Crete.[54]

Vogeikoff-Brogan has called Mylonas a pioneer in archaeological fundraising; without the large institutional budgets of colleagues like Blegen, Mylonas cultivated relationships with wealthy members of St. Louis society, encouraged his financial supporters to visit and participate in his excavations, and reported his work energetically in the St. Louis local press. Between 1963 and his retirement in 1969, he led archaeological cruises to Greece, whose ticket price included a donation to his excavation work.[35] During his time at Washington University, Mylonas established the philanthropic Mycenaean Foundation with support from American friends and students. The foundation opened an archaeologists' hostel, known as McCarthy House, and a cultural centre and medical clinic, known as the Mycenaean Melanthron, in the village of Mykines in 1969.[67] He also played a role in the establishment of a new museum at the archaeological site of Mycenae.[66] A scholarship for undergraduate humanities majors at Washington University is named in Mylonas's honor.[68]

Ancient Greek vase-painting of the cyclops Polyphemus being blinding by several men, who drive a wooden stake into his single eye.
The "Eleusis Amphora", discovered by Mylonas in 1954, showing the blinding of Polyphemus

Mylonas believed in the essential historicity of the Greek mythical tradition; in his work on Mycenae, he attempted to establish chronological dates for the reign of Agamemnon and the Trojan War.[69] At Eleusis, he claimed to have followed the directions of the Greek geographer Pausanias and to have discovered the tombs of the mythical Seven against Thebes.[70] More recent study has suggested that the tradition that the Seven were buried at Eleusis may significantly postdate the supposed date of their existence,[71] and most modern scholars reject the suggestion that the myths of Agamemnon and Troy can be connected to any archaeological material.[72] A contemporary review of his 1966 book, Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age, described his practice of using the mythological tradition to reconstruct historical events as "a dangerous procedure at best".[73] Similarly, Mylonas's contention that he had discovered a Bronze Age temple to the goddess Demeter at Eleusis, following the narrative of the ancient Homeric Hymn to Demeter by which the goddess ordered the construction of her first temple at the site, is now considered unsupported by the available evidence.[74]

Mylonas was awarded honorary degrees by Washington University, the University of Thessaloniki, Ohio University and Southern Illinois University.[75] He received two Guggenheim Fellowships, the first in 1955 and the second in 1968.[76] In 1955, he was made a Commander of the Order of George I by King Paul of Greece;[21] he also became a Grand Commander of the Royal Order of the Phoenix.[66] He was awarded the Archaeological Institute of America's Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement in 1970.[32] He was also made an honorary citizen of Eleusis and Mycenae, and presented with a golden key to the city of Washington, D.C.[66] He became a member of the Academy of Athens, Greece's national academy, in 1970,[77] and served as its president in 1980.[66] He was elected an honorary fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1978,[78] and was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[79]

Selected works

As author

  • Mylonas, George E. (1940). "Athens and Minoan Crete". Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 51: 11–36. JSTOR 45134343.
  • — (1942). The Hymn to Demeter and Her Sanctuary at Eleusis. Washington Universities Studies. St. Louis: Washington University. OCLC 217621407.
  • — (1947) [1946]. The Balkan States: An Introduction to Their History. Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press. hdl:2027/mdp.39015014645280.
  • — (1947). "Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries". The Classical Journal. 43 (3): 130–146. JSTOR 3293727.
  • — (December 1954). "Mycenae, City of Agamemnon". Scientific American. 191 (6): 72–79. Bibcode:1954SciAm.191f..72M. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1254-72. JSTOR 24943710.
  • — (June 1955). "Archaeology in Greece: An International Heritage". The Atlantic. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
  • — (1957). Ancient Mycenae: The Capital City of Agamemnon. Princeton: Princeton University Press. OCLC 459757596.
  • — (1961). Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691648873.
  • — (1966). Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691035239.
  • — (1972–1973). Ὁ ταφὶκος ́Κυκλος Β τω̂ν Μυκηνω̂ν [Grave Circle B at Mycenae]. (2 vols.) (in Greek). Athens: Archaeological Society of Athens. OCLC 563477782.
  • — (1980). Ἁναστυλώτικαι ἐργασίαι εἰς τὴν Ακρόπολιν [Restoration Works on the Acropolis]. Πρακτικά της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών [Proceedings of the Academy of Athens] (in Greek). 55 (2): 26–58. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
  • — (1981). Mycenae: A Guide to Its Ruins and Its History. Athens: Ekdotike Athenon. OCLC 8005169.
  • — (1983). Mycenae Rich in Gold. Athens: Ekdotike Athenon. OCLC 11201724.

As editor

  • Mylonas, George E.; Raymond, Doris, eds. (1951–1953). Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson on His Seventieth Birthday. St. Louis: Washington University. OCLC 427342596.

Footnotes

Explanatory notes

  1. ↑ Greece adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1923; 28 February [O.S. 15 February] was followed by 1 March.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Kiminas 2009, p. 23.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Iakovidis 1989, p. 235.
  3. ↑ Nagel 1958, p. 5.
  4. ↑ Cosmopoulos 2013, p. 11. For the Evangelical School, see Georgiadou 2004, p. 141.
  5. ↑ Cosmopoulos 2013, p. 11; "G. E. Mylonas, 89, Archeologist Who Led Greek Excavations, Dies". The New York Times. May 2, 1988. Section D, p. 14. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
  6. ↑ Kaiser 2023, p. 46; Πρόσωπα της Εταιρείας: Mυλωνάς Γεώργιος [Faces of the Society: Mylonas, George]. Archaeological Society of Athens. March 17, 2012. Archived from the original on March 17, 2012. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
  7. 1 2 3 Vogeikoff-Brogan 2020.
  8. 1 2 Cosmopoulos 2013, p. 11; Kaiser 2023, p. 46.
  9. ↑ MacLachlan 1937, p. 8; Mylonas 1940, p. 29.
  10. ↑ MacLachlan 1937, p. 8.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Πρόσωπα της Εταιρείας: Mυλωνάς Γεώργιος [Faces of the Society: Mylonas, George]. Archaeological Society of Athens. March 17, 2012. Archived from the original on March 17, 2012. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
  12. ↑ de Grummond 1996, p. 789; Cosmopoulos 2013, p. 11.
  13. ↑ Iakovidis 1989, p. 235; Kaiser 2023, p. 46.
  14. ↑ Cosmopoulos 2013, p. 11. For Cosmopoulos's relationship with Mylonas, see Cosmopoulos 2015, p. xv.
  15. 1 2 3 4 Kaiser 2023, p. 46.
  16. ↑ Daleziou 2013, p. 59.
  17. ↑ Capps 1926, p. 17; for Scoggin's full name, see Luce 1945, p. 583.
  18. ↑ Iakovidis 1989, p. 235. For the dates of Hill's excavations, see Robinson 2011, p. xxiii.
  19. ↑ Iakovidis 1989, p. 235; de Grummond 1996, p. 790. For Blegen and Hill, see Davis & Vogeikoff-Brogan 2015, p. 5.
  20. ↑ Kaiser 2023, p. 46; Iakovidis 1989, p. 235 (for the grade).
  21. 1 2 3 4 "G. E. Mylonas, 89, Archeologist Who Led Greek Excavations, Dies". The New York Times. May 2, 1988. Section D, p. 14. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
  22. ↑ Lord 1947, p. 198; Kaiser 2023, p. 46.
  23. ↑ Lord 1947, p. 205.
  24. ↑ Meritt 1984, p. 208.
  25. 1 2 3 4 5 Kaiser 2023, p. 120.
  26. ↑ Vogeikoff-Brogan 2015.
  27. ↑ de Grummond 1996, p. 790; Panagiotopoulos 2015; Iakovidou 2013, p. 210.
  28. ↑ Kaiser 2023, p. 120; Iakovidis 1989, p. 235 (for Mylonas's initial academic rank).
  29. ↑ Iakovidis 1989, p. 235; Kaiser 2023, p. 121.
  30. ↑ Lord 1947, p. 346.
  31. ↑ Lord 1947, p. 260.
  32. 1 2 3 Kaiser 2023, p. 121.
  33. 1 2 Cosmopoulos 2013, p. 14.
  34. ↑ Meritt 1984, p. 174.
  35. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Vogeikoff-Brogan 2017.
  36. ↑ Mylonas 1955; Vogeikoff-Brogan 2017.
  37. ↑ Meritt 1984, p. 60.
  38. ↑ Meritt 1984, p. 78.
  39. ↑ Meritt 1984, p. 143.
  40. 1 2 Vogeikoff-Brogan 2018.
  41. ↑ Schofield 2007, p. 33; Muskett 2014, p. 51; Vasilikou 2013, p. 55.
  42. ↑ Mylonas 1954, pp. 75–76.
  43. ↑ Meritt 1984, p. 60; Vogeikoff-Brogan 2021.
  44. ↑ Mylonas 1954, p. 76.
  45. ↑ Mylonas 1955.
  46. ↑ Cadogan 2006, p. 157.
  47. ↑ de Grummond 1996, p. 790; Cosmopoulos 2013, p. 14.
  48. ↑ MacKendrick 1981, pp. 192–193.
  49. ↑ "G. E. Mylonas, 89, Archeologist Who Led Greek Excavations, Dies". The New York Times. May 2, 1988. Section D, p. 14. Retrieved January 9, 2024.; Shelton 2010, p. 26 (for the dates).
  50. ↑ Shelton 2010, p. 26. For the dates of Tsountas's excavations, see Shelton 2006, p. 161.
  51. ↑ Shelton 2010, p. 26.
  52. 1 2 Shelton 2010, p. 27.
  53. ↑ Shelton 2022, p. 1.
  54. 1 2 Panagiotopoulos 2015.
  55. ↑ Meritt 1984, pp. 83–84.
  56. ↑ "Famed Archaeologist George Mylonas Dies" (PDF). Record. Washington University. April 21, 1988. p. 3. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
  57. ↑ Filetici (ed.) 2003, p. 15.
  58. ↑ "G. E. Mylonas, 89, Archeologist Who Led Greek Excavations, Dies". The New York Times. May 2, 1988. Section D, p. 14. Retrieved January 9, 2024.; "Famed Archaeologist George Mylonas Dies" (PDF). Record. Washington University. April 21, 1988. p. 3. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
  59. ↑ "The Age of Heroes". In Search of the Trojan War. February 24, 1985. 42 minutes in. BBC2.
  60. ↑ Ecenbarger 1999.
  61. ↑ Cosmopoulos 2013, pp. 14–15.
  62. ↑ "Obituary for Ione M. Shear". Bryn Mawr College. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007.
  63. ↑ Spitzer 1993, p. 292.
  64. ↑ Greer 1985, p. 19.
  65. ↑ Iakovidis 1989, pp. 235–236.
  66. 1 2 3 4 5 Iakovidis 1989, p. 237.
  67. ↑ Iakovidis 1989, p. 236.
  68. ↑ Cosmopoulos 2013, p. 17; "Famed Archaeologist George Mylonas Dies" (PDF). Record. Washington University. April 21, 1988. p. 3. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
  69. ↑ Finley 1967.
  70. ↑ "Science: Diggers". Time. August 3, 1953. Retrieved January 14, 2024.
  71. ↑ Anderson 2015, pp. 297, 304–305.
  72. ↑ Whitley 2020, pp. 259–260.
  73. ↑ Buck 1967, p. 374.
  74. ↑ Glowacki 2016, p. 676. For Mylonas's own statement of this theory, see Mylonas 1947, pp. 131–133.
  75. ↑ Iakovidis 1989, p. 237; "Corrigendum: George Emmanuel Mylonas (1898–1988)". American Journal of Archaeology. 93 (4): 629. 1989. JSTOR 505356.
  76. ↑ "George E. Mylonas". Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
  77. ↑ Iakovidis 1989, p. 237; Τακτικά μέλη της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών κατά σειρά εκλογής [Regular Members of the Academy of Athens in Order of Election] (in Greek). Academy of Athens. November 11, 2015. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
  78. ↑ "Professor George Mylonas" (PDF). The Antiquaries Journal. 68 (2): 389–390. 1988. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
  79. ↑ "Changes in the Membership 1987–1988". Records of the Academy (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) (1987/1988): 76–77. 1988. JSTOR 3785946.

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