CLA204H1 Chapter 13: Notes for Chapter 13
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Because legends are attached to the names of men and women who really lived, their stories tend to be local, focussed on a specific place or territory. > greek bronze age left many remains on the argive plain. > almost the only large sculpture to survive from the bronze age: two lions rampant on either side of a minoan column loom over the great entranceway, framed by enormous stones. Around the citadel are nine beehive tombs, domes contracts underground to house the remains of mycenaean kings. Treasury of atreus has the largest dome ever constructed (until romans built pantheon fifteen hundred years later) Graves contained an enormous quantity of golden objects of extraordinary quality. In bronze age, mycenae was a populous center of wealth and power counded by. > surrounded by amazing walls of immense stones carefully fitted together. > near the sea and may have been a port that served mycenae.
