George E. Mylonas

George Emmanuel Mylonas (Greek Γεώργιος Εμμανουήλ Μυλωνάς, born December 9, 1898 in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire, † 15 April 1988 in Greece) was an American archaeologist Classic Greek descent.

After attending school in Smyrna, he studied Classical Studies at Athens University. In the Greco- Turkish War 1921-1922, he fought on the Greek side in his native Asia Minor and returned as a refugee in 1923 back to Athens. Here he found a position at the American School of Classical Studies as assistant to Stuart Thompson. In 1928 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the Neolithic in Greece in Athens. In 1928 he received his second doctorate at David Moore Robinson at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He became in 1933 Professor of Classical Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis and taught there until his retirement in 1968. Following the acquisition of U.S. citizenship in 1937, he was at times also president of the Archaeological Society.

After his retirement, he returned to Greece and was there from 1979 until his death, Secretary General of the Archaeological Society of Athens. Among the best known results of his excavations include the Bronze Age finds from Agios Kosmas, Neolithic finds from near Olynthus and the discovery of the outer circle graves at Mycenae. He campaigned for the construction of a new museum at Mycenae in order to accommodate the new discoveries made ​​by him can.

Publications (selection)

  • The Balkan States. An Introduction to Their History., 1946.
  • (Ed.): Studies presented to David M. Robinson, St. Louis 1953
  • Mycenae: The Capital City of Agamemnon. In 1957.
  • Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age. In 1966.
  • Grave Circle B of Mycenae. In 1972.
  • Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries. 3rd edition, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1974, ISBN 0-691-00205-3 ( first edition: 1932).
  • Mycenae. A Guide to Its Ruins and Its History. In 1981.
  • Mycenae rich in gold. In 1983.
  • Mycenae. A guide to its ruins and its history, Ekdotike Athenon, Athens 1993, ISBN 960-213-213-2
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