Mycenean Acropolis of Tiryns
Bronze Age citadel ringed by Cyclopean walls, its palace once painted with hunting scenes.
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This guide to the Mycenaean Acropolis of Tiryns, near Nafplio, is about how the lords of a Bronze Age fortress spent their leisure, as told by the painted plaster that once covered their palace walls. It follows a hunting frieze of chariots, leashed hounds and women in men's dress, and the early twentieth-century dig that recovered it from a rubbish heap. Best heard standing beside the Cyclopean walls, looking up toward the palace summit.
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