2014-10-10 - Metropolitan Museum of Art - Mycenaean Art
Mycenaean is the term applied to the art and culture of Greece during the Late Helladic period (ca. 1550-1100 B.C.). Mycenae is celebrated by Homer as the seat of King Agamemnon, who led the Greeks in the Trojan War. In modern archaeology, the site forst gained renown through Heinrich Scnlemann's excavations in the mid-1870s, which brought to light objects whose opulence and antiquity seemed to correspond to Homer's descriptions of Agamemnon's palace.
2014-10-10 - Metropolitan Museum of Art - Mycenaean Art
Mycenaean is the term applied to the art and culture of Greece during the Late Helladic period (ca. 1550-1100 B.C.). Mycenae is celebrated by Homer as the seat of King Agamemnon, who led the Greeks in the Trojan War. In modern archaeology, the site forst gained renown through Heinrich Scnlemann's excavations in the mid-1870s, which brought to light objects whose opulence and antiquity seemed to correspond to Homer's descriptions of Agamemnon's palace.