Greece is now opening up its borders to travelers, so if any of you are thinking of taking the plunge, here’s another wonderful place to visit. For the rest, a little more armchair traveling on a ThrowbackThursday, from a trip taken in 2016
In the Iliad, Homer described Mycenae as ‘a city rich in gold.’ It was the legendary home of King Agamemnon, leader of the Greeks who went to Troy to fight the Trojan War. The Greeks of classical antiquity idealized the Mycenaean period as a glorious period of heroes, closeness of the gods and material wealth, as described in the Trojan Epic cycle.
In 1876, amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann set out to prove the historical accuracy of the Iliad by identifying the places described by Homer. Using the text of Pausanias, the second-century A.D. traveller, as his guide, he excavated the site at Mycenae, discovering the deep shaft graves where bodies were buried dressed in lavishly decorated shrouds adorned with gold items and diadems and with their faces covered by masks of gold or electrum (such as the Mask of Agamemnon, below).
Copy of the mask of Agamemenon
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Letters from Athens 
I never got to see Mycenae when I was in Greece, so definitely missed out. But I did go from Athens to see the theatre in the hills.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Oh, I wish but unfortunately British tourists are not welcome in Greece for now 😦 Can’t say I blame them for banning us as we’ve (well, the government) made such a hash of controlling Covid-19.
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They did… but everything will go back to normal one day, it always does!
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Well worth further exploration.
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