Mycenae is a very cool archaeological site. It is mostly built with really huge stones- this is the "cyclopean masonry" that you hear so much about. (Well, I'm not sure how much you hear about it. In archaeology, we hear about it all the time.) We got to climb through a lot of the citadel, and it was pretty neat. There are two more tholoi at the site, as well as two grave circles, grave circle A and grave circle B. (Grave circle A is famous because it is where the mask of Agamemnon was found- though there is no way this is actually the mask of Agamemnon. It's about 300 years too old for that.)
The site from above!
It was also the windiest trip I have been on yet. Here is Gina, looking windblown. Behind her you can see some of the beautiful scenery that's characteristic of the Argolid- other than northern Greece, this was one of the most beautiful places I have been to yet.
And Gina and I under the Lion's Gate- this is a very famous gate. Josh yelled at us for looking too happy and cheerful under the Lion's Gate- apparently we ought to have been killing each other, or at least looking a bit miffed- but Gina and I were both happy and it seemed uneccessary to pretend otherwise. Josh came up with a hypothesis about how the lions are actually Simba and Scar from the Lion King- I think the reasoning behind this was that the Lion King is loosely based on Hamlet, which is loosely based on the Oresteia. (Only let's face it- the Oresteia is way more cool. Just saying.)
Mycenae is a very cool archaeological site. It is mostly built with really huge stones- this is the "cyclopean masonry" that you hear so much about. (Well, I'm not sure how much you hear about it. In archaeology, we hear about it all the time.) We got to climb through a lot of the citadel, and it was pretty neat. There are two more tholoi at the site, as well as two grave circles, grave circle A and grave circle B. (Grave circle A is famous because it is where the mask of Agamemnon was found- though there is no way this is actually the mask of Agamemnon. It's about 300 years too old for that.)
The site from above!
It was also the windiest trip I have been on yet. Here is Gina, looking windblown. Behind her you can see some of the beautiful scenery that's characteristic of the Argolid- other than northern Greece, this was one of the most beautiful places I have been to yet.
And Gina and I under the Lion's Gate- this is a very famous gate. Josh yelled at us for looking too happy and cheerful under the Lion's Gate- apparently we ought to have been killing each other, or at least looking a bit miffed- but Gina and I were both happy and it seemed uneccessary to pretend otherwise. Josh came up with a hypothesis about how the lions are actually Simba and Scar from the Lion King- I think the reasoning behind this was that the Lion King is loosely based on Hamlet, which is loosely based on the Oresteia. (Only let's face it- the Oresteia is way more cool. Just saying.)
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