Well-spring in Tirýntha (Greece)

Well-spring in Tirýntha

2014

Oil painting

80cm x 100cm

Tiryns (Tirýntha) was a hill fort with occupation

ranging back seven thousand years,

from before the beginning of the bronze age.

Tiryns (Tirýntha) a préhistoric castle ruins in the Greek

nomos argolis on the peloponnesos.

Its most notable features were its palace,

its cyclopean tunnels and especially its walls, wich gave the city

it's homeric epithet of „mighty walled Tiryns”.

In some myths Tiryns was founded by Perseus and

with the helped hands from the cyclopean.

who builded the gigantic rampart.

Poseidon, the seagod, did arrised there well-springs.