Welcome
to Mycenae
The Argolis Peninsula was the center of Greek culture
from 1600 to 1100 BC under the Myceneans until the city was
destroyed. The enormous stone walls of the ancient city make
one wonder how anything short of a nuclear blast could harm
it. Because the stones were so massive, the Greeks believed
the giant Cyclops must have lifted them, thus the term Cyclopean
walls.
The ancient city is entered through the famous Lion Gate and
contains the palace of Agamemnon. If you remember your Iliad
you will know that Agememnon
was the brother of Menelaous, the husband of Helen, who was
abducted by Paris and taken to Troy. The combined Greek forces
under the command of Agememnon took ten years to conquer the
city of Troy. On his return home Agememnon was murdered in
his bath by his wife Clytaemenstra who had taken a lover in
his absence and was still smarting over the sacrifice of their
daughter in an effort to gain favorable winds for the expedition.
Their son Orestes then murdered her.
According
to legend, Mycenae was the capital of Agamemnon, the Achaean
king who
sacked the city of Troy, and it was set, as Homer says,
“in a nook of Argos,” with a natural citadel
formed by the ravines between the mountains of Hagios Elias(Ayios
Ilias) and Zara, and furnished with a fine perennial spring
named Perseia after Perseus, the legendary founder of Mycenae.
It is the chief Late Bronze Age site in mainland Greece.
Systematic excavation of the site began in 1840, but the
most celebrated discoveries there were those of Heinrich
Schliemann. The term "Mycenaean" is often used
in reference to the Late Bronze Age of mainland Greece in
general and of the islands except Crete.
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Welcome
to Mycenae
culture
from 1600 to 1100 BC under the Myceneans until the city was
destroyed. The enormous stone walls of the ancient city make
one wonder how anything short of a nuclear blast could harm
it. Because the stones were so massive, the Greeks believed
the giant Cyclops must have lifted them, thus the term Cyclopean
walls.
Agememnon
was the brother of Menelaous, the husband of Helen, who was
abducted by Paris and taken to Troy. The combined Greek forces
under the command of Agememnon took ten years to conquer the
city of Troy. On his return home Agememnon was murdered in
his bath by his wife Clytaemenstra who had taken a lover in
his absence and was still smarting over the sacrifice of their
daughter in an effort to gain favorable winds for the expedition.
Their son Orestes then murdered her.
who
sacked the city of Troy, and it was set, as Homer says,
“in a nook of Argos,” with a natural citadel
formed by the ravines between the mountains of Hagios Elias(Ayios
Ilias) and Zara, and furnished with a fine perennial spring
named Perseia after Perseus, the legendary founder of Mycenae.
It is the chief Late Bronze Age site in mainland Greece.
Systematic excavation of the site began in 1840, but the
most celebrated discoveries there were those of Heinrich
Schliemann. The term "Mycenaean" is often used
in reference to the Late Bronze Age of mainland Greece in
general and of the islands except Crete. 
Paxi, Sifnos, Sikinos, Simi, Skiathos, Skopelos, Skyros, Syros,
Tilos, Thassos, Zakynthos, Cephalonia, Dilos, Evia, Folegandros,
Halki, Hios, Ikaria, Ithaka, Ios, Kalymnos, Karpathos, Kassos,
Kos, Kythira, Kimolos, Kea, Kythnos, Alonyssos, Parthenon, Acropolis.