Ancient Greece Images Mesopotamian Ziggarats, Mycenean Palaces, Homeric Greece (Dark Ages), Classical Greece.

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Ancient Greece Images Mesopotamian Ziggarats, Mycenean Palaces, Homeric Greece (Dark Ages), Classical Greece

Mesopotamian Ziggarats

Palaces of the Achaeans during the time leading up to the Trojan War circa 1250 B.C.E.

King Nestor’s Palace

Temple of Nestor at Pylos

Plan for Nestor’s Palace

Nestor’s Palace at Pylos today

Artist’s idea of Nestor’s Palace

King Minos’ Palace at Knossos in Crete (the Labyrinth)

Plan of King Minos’ Palace at Knossos

Knossos

Knossos

Plan for King Minos’ Palace at Knossos - the labyrinth

Agamemnon & his Palace at Mycenae

Agamemnon’s death mask

Acropolis of Myceneae

Lion Gate at Mycenae

Homer’s time - the Dark Ages 750 - 725 B.C.E.

Homer

Sophocles and the Classical Period

Sophocles

Discobolus

Parthenon

Acropolis in Athens

Odysseus killing Polyphemus

Boy pulling thorn from foot

Zeus

Theater at Epidauros

Aristotle