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A place of kings and tragedies
Mycenae Review: |
Date posted: Nov 07, 2008
Posted by: Pepitder
Times Viewed: 602
More: Mycenae
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We went on Mycenae as a tour from Athens. It was a hot morning when we set off the bus and saw an impressive archaeological site lying in front of us. I had read about Mycenae back home, about its glorious kings and the tragedies that were connected to this ancient place. The gate of the lions, the Cyclopean walls, the vaulted tombs... Mythic figures like ghosts all over the place: Agamemnon, the abrupt king, his unfaithful wife Klytemnistra, their innocent daughter Iphigenia who was sucrificed for the sake of Greece, their unrational son Orestes who killed his mother and a daughter, Electra, secretly in love with her father... So many touching stories in a single place...
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