1. Mycenaean Palaces and the Heroes of Myth

2. Palace Sites of Prehistoric Greece

3. Homes of the Homeric Heroes

4. Megara of the Aegean   Homeric megaron suite of rooms? main room? NO double porch

5. Megaron Tripartite division: porch, vestibule, & throne room Large circular hearth, centrally located in throne room 4 columns arranged in a square around hearth throne against middle of right-hand wall in throne room (P, T, maybe M) Plastered, painted floors (Pylos, Mycenae, and Tiryns) Access to throne room only from vestibule, through axially placed doorway 2 columns between antae in porch (h) Rich decoration of the walls throughout the unit by means of frescoes.

6. Tiryns Schliemann & Wilhelm Dörpfeld

7. Tiryns: Megaron Plan

8. The 1st Heroic Age of Tiryns: Perseus

9. Acrisius, the Jealous Father, & Danae’s Golden Shower

10. Perseus The Gorgon Medusa The “Cracken” Andromeda Pegasus

11. Trouble with the In-laws: Uncle Phineus

12. Tiryns & the 1st Heroic Age Herakles, Eurystheus & the 12 labors

13. Herakles’ heroic weaknesses

14. Tiryns & the 2nd Heroic Age: Diomedes

15. Diomedes’ aristeia

16. Messenia

17. Good Old Nestor: Warrior & Councillor

18. Pylos: the Palace of Nestor

19. Palace of Nestor A= megaron D, M= courts E= propylon F= columned porch K= bathroom L= queen's megaron W= wine cellar

20. Pylos Megaron & Magazines

21. Cleanliness is next to Mycenaean-ness

22. The Argolid

23. Mycenae Christos Tsountas

24. Mycenae Megaron Reconstruction

25. The Palace of Agamemnon Welcome home, honey Clytemnestra & Aegisthus

26. Lakoni a

27. The Menelaion Earliest Palatial Building LHIIB Destroyed in LHIIIA1

28. Manly Menelaos

29. Menelaos Unmanned/Unarmed

30. Why does Menelaos spare Helen?

31. Well, he seems happy…