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A Mycenaean palace has been also unearthed in Laconia, near the modern village of Xirokambi. [155] The hearth of the megaron of Pylos. The palatial structures of mainland Greece share a number of common features. [156] The focal point of the socio-political aspect of a Mycenaean palace was the megaron, the throne room. [153]
Mycenae (/ maɪˈsiːniː / my-SEE-nee; [2] Mycenaean Greek: 𐀘𐀏𐀙𐀂; Ancient Greek: Μυκῆναι or Μυκήνη, Mykē̂nai or Mykḗnē) is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece. It is located about 120 kilometres (75 miles) south-west of Athens; 11 kilometres (7 miles) north of Argos ...
Tiryns (/ ˈtɪrɪnz / or / ˈtaɪrɪnz /; Ancient Greek: Τίρυνς; Modern Greek: Τίρυνθα) is a Mycenaean archaeological site in Argolis in the Peloponnese, and the location from which the mythical hero Heracles was said to have performed his Twelve Labours. It lies 20 km (12 mi) south of Mycenae.
Palace of Nestor. Coordinates: 37°01′38″N 21°41′42″E. Bath in Palace of Nestor. The Palace of Nestor (Modern Greek: Ανάκτορο του Νέστορα) was an important centre in Mycenaean times, and described in Homer 's Odyssey and Iliad as Nestor 's kingdom of "sandy Pylos ". [1]
The megaron (/ ˈmɛɡəˌrɒn /; Ancient Greek: μέγαρον, [mégaron], pl.: megara / ˈmɛɡərə /) was the great hall in very early Mycenean and ancient Greek palace complexes. [1] Architecturally, it was a rectangular hall that was surrounded by four columns, fronted by an open, two-columned portico, and had a central, open hearth that ...
North of Pylos (17 km (11 mi)) and south of the town of Chora (4 kilometres), is the hill of Ano Englianos which houses the Mycenaean Bronze Age palace known as the "Palace of Nestor" (1600–1200 BC). This palace remains today in Greece the best preserved palace and one of the most important of all Mycenaean civilization.
941. The Treasury of Atreus or Tomb of Agamemnon[1] is a large tholos or beehive tomb constructed between 1300 and 1250 BCE in Mycenae, Greece. [2] It is the largest and most elaborate tholos tomb known to have been constructed in the Aegean Bronze Age, and one of the last to have been built in the Argolid.
The Lion Gate (Greek: Πύλη των Λεόντων) is the popular modern name for the main entrance of the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae in Southern Greece. It was erected during the thirteenth century BC, around 1250 BC, in the northwestern side of the acropolis. In modern times, it was named after the relief sculpture of two lions or ...