The Huron Expositor, 1960-07-14, Page 7(The fallo iag artisle
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peered in the lllustrated.'London
News, is written IV Professor Wm,
*Donald, Prof. McDonald, a son
of Rev.' W. on
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dand
Mrs.
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McDonald, is a. former student of
the Seaforth Collegiate, Institute,
,which he attendedduring the per-
iod his father was minister of Eg.
mondville Church. Prof, McDon-
ald, well-kngwn as an archwolegist,
heads the department of Classics
hi the College of Science, Litera-
ture and the Arts, University of
Minnesota, at Minneapolis. Ile IS
a nephew of Rev. D. J. Lane, of
Clinton).
Nestor, King of Pylos, is one of
the most appealing characters in
the Homeric poems. Like many
old men, he liked to rerninisce
about the good old days- and his
own *youthful achievements. No
doubt he exaggerated a good deal,
but the ninety ships -under his com-
mand at Troy suggest that he was
indeed an important figure. In
terms of his time and place, he
controlled a considerable kingdom,
Indeed, Pyles seems to have been
second only to Mycenae in Wealth
and resources, since Agamemnon's
100 ships formed the one numeri-
cally larger Greek contingent.
Ever since ancient times it has
been agreed that the Pylian king-
dom -once occupied the southwest
corner of the Greek peninsula,
roughly the section later, called
Messenia. But it was only in
1939 that Professor Carl Blegen,
of the University of Cincinnati, dis-
covered near the famous Bay of
Navarino the ruins of a great pal-.
'ace which is now almost universal-
ly believed
niversal-ly.believed to have been Nestor's
capital. Systematic . excavation of
this site since World War II has
fully supported the literary _.evi..._
dence of Pylian prosperity and
power. And the clay tablets from
the palace archives are gradually
revealing new information about
the organization and economy of
the kingdom. First deciphered in
1953, most of the. tablets record
various taxes in kind which were
paid annually to the king by a
large number of subject towns and
districts.
So now, after more than 3,000
years of obscurity, Nestor's realm
is beginning to come alive again.
But thus far, questions are much
more numerous than answers. For
example, where should one look
for remains of the towns whose
names keep recurring in the tab-
lets and in the Homeric -literature?
What were the boundaries of the
kingdom? What' about roads,
bridges, harbours, key defensive
points?
I)r. Blegen turned over these
problems to a junior colleague,
Professor William A. McDonald,
of the University of Minnesota.
With considerable research in lib=
raries and a couple of shorter field
trips (1953, 1955) behind him, Mc-
Donald was able to arrange a con-
centrated campaign during the
195&59 academic year.
Co-workers in `various phases of
the work included a pleistocene
geologist and a mediaeval historian.
The Greek Archaeological Service,
especially the Director, Dr. John
Papadimitriou, extended every
courtesy and assistance. Dr. Nich-
olas Yalouris, representative of
the Service in the area under stu-
dy, participated in some of the
field trips and generously shared
the results of his own recentex-
cavations and field research. 'Mc-
Donald's chief collaborator was
Richard Hope Simpson, who, as
holder of the first Michael Ventris
Memorial Award for Mycenaean
studies, assisted in the 1955-59 cam-
paign, and is now studying for the
ph.D. degree at University Col-
lege, London.
The team examined with varying
degrees of thoroughness an area
approximately 2000 square miles
in extent. They travelled about
6000 miles by automobile, but many
objectives could be reached only
on foot, on horseback, or by boat.
Important clues were furnished by
land configuration, some of them
revealed in air photographs. Chat-
ting with the farmers on their land
and in the cafes was another ma-
jor source of information. And,
of course, every report by pre-
vious researehers was carefully
ch, Pelted. The ,Moat Valuable of all
eve
sources 0f ii#4rmat en i., , however,
was "sherding -that is, collecting
broken pottery from the surface.,
Mkt work naturally concentrat
ed on"rec.9nstrlictang the habitation
pattern •airbag, Nester's. epoch,
which, specialists call the Late
Bronze or Mycenaean period, Al-
together, over seventy site were
mapped, more than half o£ them
for the first time. But McDonald
and his colleagues also recorded
settlements and burials dating
from the earliest habitation in the
New Stone Age all the way down
to the Byzantine (ihediaevai) per-
iod. And, of course for every spot
"scored," many others had to be
examined aid eliminated.
The most recent researchers
have some quite definite ideas now
about the extent of the Pylian king-
dom, about the kind of country that
attracted Myceanaean settlement,
and what the settlers looked for in
terms of soil, water supply, com-
munications, natural defences.
They ,have traced in some, detail
the line of the main highway lead-
ing from Nestor's palace eastward
to the Pylian border and on to-
ward Sparta. This' should be the
route once travelled by Telema-
chos, son of Odysseus. According
to Homer's "Odyssey," Telema-
chos visited the mainland . to _in-
quire about his father's fate, was
entertained by Nestor and then
driven overland by, chariot to
Menelaos' palace at Sparta. '
Of course", field reconnaissance,
indispensable though it is, consti-
tutes only the first step. Test
trenching and even systematic ex-
cavation at key sites must even-
tually follow to check the reliabil-
ity of surface indications, in early
Jay, McDonald; acid Yalouris test-
ed two of the most promising new
sites. The first, called Kaphirio, is
a commanding hill situated near
the modern town of Longa. It is
a fine natural location to control
this fertile coastal area. But, al-
though Mycerne pottery was rel-
atively abundant on the surface,
test trenches and pits indicate that
even the foundations of the town
which once stood on the acropolis
have mostly -disappeared.
In contrast, Nichoria, which is
near Rizomylo, proved to have the
ruins of a Mycenan town in a
better state of preservation than
surface indications had suggested.
At least a partial explanation is
that the Nichoria hilltop is not
deeply cultivated and is planted
mostly to fig trees nowadays. The
Longa acropolis, on the other hand,
is mainly in vines which receive
deep and intensive .cultivation.
All trenches at Nichoria reveal-
ed foundations of Mycenaean build-
ings and masses of pottery. Like
Blegen's palace site, this town ap-
pears to have been destroyed by
fire about 1200 B.C. and was never
rebuilt. But previous to the final
destruction, it seems to -have been
occupied for at least 500 years.
Several monumental tholos or bee-
hive tombs have already been lo-
cated, although none was opened
this year. All in all, Nichoria prom-
ises to be one of the richest Bronze
Age sites in Greece. And one of
its most interesting features is
the fact that there seems to have
been almost continuous habitation
in the immediate area (though not,
on the acropolis itself) from the
beginning of the Iron Age until as
late as Roman Imperial times.
Such a long history is largely ex-
plained by Nichoria's strategic
position commanding the most di-
rect pass from eastern to western
Messenia. The new information
will be published in detail as soon
as possible so as to be accessible
to the many scholars who are now
working on various aspects of
Mycenaean studies. A preliminary
report of the team's discoveries
was presented at the third Inter-
national Classical Congress, meet-
ing in London in September. Plans
for the future are still tentative.
But McDonald and Yalouris expect
to continue work as soon as pos-
sible at Nichoria. They also hope
to be able to do more prospecting
and to carry out test excavations
at, other promising spots in the
eag'tern section of the area which
once owed allegiance to Nestor.
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gathered hi the basement of Duff's
United Church, McKillop.
Shirley and Dianne Henderson
favored with some two-part sing-
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chide representatives of various
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Promoting the We'd Ontario pro,
duet live stock and•farm prod�xcts:
James stinpsoti,; general. Manag,
er of the First Co-operative-1?a.Ck:
ers, Barrie, will represent the meat
products industry,; C. N. Heaths,
secretary of the Ontario Fiue-Cured
Tobacco lVfarketing Board, Tiilsoii-
burg, will represent the flue -cured'
tobacco growers; Walter Scott, of
the Canada Department of Agri-
culture Experiment Station, Har-
row, the burley tobacco growers.;
C. S. MaoNaughton, M.L.A., Exe-
ter, the grain and forage crop
seeds; George McLaughlin, Beav-
erton, dairy products; Dr. John
Brown, secretary -treasurer of the
Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Grow-
ers' Association, fresh, canned and
frozen fruit and vegetable products
and Herbert Arbuckle, secretary
of the Ontario Federation of Agri-
culture, who will represent the Fed-
eration and other interested com-
modity groups.
Everett Biggs, assistant IYeputy
Minister, Marketing; G. Frank
Perkin, Ontario Marketing Com-
missioner, and Fred M. Baker, of
the Department of Agriculture,
will accompany 'Mr. Goodfellow.
Chief objective of the delegation
will be to enquire into the possi-
bility of increased export trade in
Ontario's agricultural products in
Great Britain and elsewhere. Ex-
pansion of the overseas market- is
now possible as a result -of the re-
cent removal of trade restrictions
by the British government against
dollar imports_ which have serious-
ly -curbed the export of Canadian
consumer goods for the• past 20
years.
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REV. W. e. SMITH, who was
inducted into the charge of St.
Andrew's UniteddShurch, Bay-
field, Grace Umted Church,
Porter's Hill, and Zion Church
at Taylor's Corners, He serv-
ed formerly at Port Stanley,
Grand' Bend and charges near
Oshawa. •
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sat nlar reseri, seri have 'been'
renlaved a fav*rabla opportuait#'
ilreaets itself to interest . a: new.
generation of Britisit'e9pSant rs in
the quality of the products we.
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Mr,'" od el o said. the ,persea,
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Advise Marks
Of Music Pupils
The Royal Conservatory of Mus-
ic, Toronto, held a centre on June
16 at Melville Presbyterian Sun-
day School, Brussels, for the pupils
of Mr. and Mrs. Louis D. Thomp-
son. Mr, Douglas Elliott, of the
Conservatory staff, was the ex-
aminer.
Following are the marks:
Piano
Grade I—First Class Honors—
Carolyn Fraser, 80. Honors—Doro-
thy Elliott, 77; Joyce Huether, 75.
Grade II—First Class 'Honors—
Ann Oldfield, 81. Honors—Marni
lronson, 76; Nellie Bann, 76.
Grade,'III—Honors, Douglas El-
liott, 74..
Grade IV—Honors: Anne McKer-
cher, 78'3nGraham Craig, 76; Lois
Whitfield, 75; Glenna Houston, 75;
Mary Watson, 74; Dianne Van -
camp, 72.
Grade V—Honors: Ruth McTag-
gart,, 78; Sally Galbraith.
Grade VIII - Honors i•-•• Douglas
Fisher, Carlow, 78.
Theory
Grade I — First Class Honors:
Anne 'Cardiff, 100; Geraldine Den-
nis, 100; Joyce Harmon, 98; • Bren-
da Houston, 94. •
Grade II — First Class Honors:
Yvonne Connelly, 88; . Joyce Proc-
ter, 87.
On Saturday, June 25, the West-
ern Ontario Conservatory of Music
held a centre at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Louis D. Thompson, of
Brussels. Mr. BreVister was the
examiner.
Following are the marks:
Singing
Grade •VIII, Sr.—Pass: Marilyn
Johnston, 68. Junior Grade: First
Class Honors, Margaret Hillen, 84.
Honors: Pauline Thamer, 75.
The history centre was held at
the United "Church parsonage,
Rev. Lloyd Brown presiding:
History
Grade III—First Class Honors:
Faye Love, .82. Honors" Jean Hil-
len, 70.
Piano
Grade X, Partial: Mary Lou
Wright, -Bluevale.
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A large crowd waa '(?ak hand Sat;
ut'daynigbt too the reg!ilar Weekly.
bwgoz sponsored by the , afortlh;
Canadian Legion, Branch..1501.
in the new ,I.egwn. Holl;;'. There ?Vas.;
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