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Mycenae Map

editor — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 17:30:00 +0000

Approaching Mycenae, foundations of a Bronze Age bridge lie in the valley (right). Soon shaft graves can be seen cut into the rock (left). Before the main car park, is a parking area (left) for the so-called Treasury of Atreus , a magnificent tholos tomb, unusually containing a small side chamber. From the main site entrance, the path leads to the Lion Gate. Next, right of the well-paved road, is Grave Circle A (no access), where Schliemann discovered many gold masks and grave-goods. A path leads upwards to the palace with its megaron (no access), approached through a series of

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Mycenae & the Curse on Agamemnon’s Family

editor — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 21:00:00 +0000

It never leaves this house, the chorus, chanting its cabbala in unison, cacophonous, words so diabolic – and they’ve drunk human blood. And so their power is growing and they’re haunting all the house now with their ghostly tarantella and they cannot be dislodged – they’re in the blood, congenital, the demons of revenge. They are roosting in the palace, chanting psalms of blinding madness, of the passion that began it, a polyphony of loathing for a brother’s wife debauched, detestation for the man who so seduced her.. Look! Do you see them, roosting, huddled close beside the house, the

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Mycenae in History & Today

editor — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:33:00 +0000

Inhabited from the fourth millennium bc, Mycenae attained increasing importance and wealth in the second millennium Funerary goods discovered in Grave Circle A, a royal cemetery later incorporated within the circuit of the citadel’s walls include solid gold death masks, jewelry, cups and banqueting paraphernalia, as well as inlaid daggers, whose blades are decorated with scenes of aristocratic pursuits including lion hunts. On stone stelai, men with spears are shown hunting from chariots. Around 1500 bc tholos tombs were constructed in the neighbouring hills. These were outstanding feats of engineering: high corbelled chambers with dressed and fitted stone, approached by

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