Travel Diary: Mycenae (Treasury of Atreus)
The Lion Gate of Mycenae
Then the goddess the ox-eyed lady Hera answered:
"Of all cities there are three that are dearest to my own heart:
Argos and Sparta and Mykenai of the wide ways."
Iliad 4.50-52, Lattimore translation
In Ancient Greece Odyssey Part II, I showed you the treasures Heinrich Schliemann found there, which now reside in the Athens National Museum. Now let me show you where they came from.
Excerpt from my travel diary:
"Today we pay our respects to the stern bastion of Mycenae, a short drive inland from the bay of Nafplion. We head into the surrounding farm country fenced by low hills, punctuated with knobby outcroppings. Orange groves scent the air just outside the city outskirts. As always, the profusion of flowers on banks and meadows is breathtaking, spilling into groves of dusty gray-green olive trees and stands of tall, dark cypress. Soon we take a road leading up into the hills..."
(Read on...)
Also in this section:
Photo Gallery, including Treasury of Atreus
Recommended Links, including 360° VR Panoramas
Detailed interactive site map of Mycenae
[Note: My LJ post on Nauplion and the Gulf of Corinth had a broken link -- now fixed -- it should have linked here!]