The Mycenaean Lion Gate: The Architecture of Power
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Introduction: The Threshold of Heroes Guarding the monumental entrance to the citadel of Mycenae in the Peloponnese stands the Lion Gate . Erected around 1250 BCE during the height of the Late Bronze Age, it is the oldest piece of monumental monumental sculpture in Europe. It served as the literal and symbolic threshold to the home of Agamemnon, the legendary high king who led the Greek coalition against Troy in Homer’s Iliad . While the Minoans of Crete built open, sprawling palaces that celebr