Thread by @NAChristakis

I recently learned of these written records regarding the father of Agamemnon. The myths, and the history, and the archaeology are all so moving — stretching across time (almost) immemorial.

https://twitter.com/arcgreek/status/1123575157702955008

The site of Mycenae is stunning. So different than what one thinks of classical Greece.

On the other side of this wall was likely the bath where Clytemnestra killed Agamemnon.

And the site feels like Minas Tirith in so many ways. Even with a white tree.

For those who don’t know, the “cyclopean” architecture of these Mycenaean civilization sites are wholly different than later classical architecture one usually thinks of as “Ancient Greece.” But no less amazing.