All photographs copyright 2000 Richard S. Sternberg
Mykines: Main, North Gate, approaching the Lion Gate and the Guard
House, with the glare of the sun up the steep hill to left
All photographs copyright 2000 Richard S. Sternberg
Mykines: Main, North Gate, approaching the Lion Gate and the Guard
House, with the glare of the sun up the steep hill to left
Road to Lion Gate at top of mountain |
Detail of Lion Gate Lentil |
Lion Gate Lentil |
Cycloptic Wall & North Gate built into mountain c. 1700-1400 B.C.E.
By the time of the Classical Greeks, all history of the Mycenaeans
had been replaced by a legend to explain these stones,
which the Classical Greeks could not explain or duplicate. Legend told
that the Titan Cyclopes had laid these stones in antiquity,
before Zeus and the Gods conquered the Titans and created Man.
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