Mycenae: Cradle of Bronze Age Greece
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Overlooking the Argolid Plain in the eastern Peloponnese, Mycenae was once the envy of the Mediterranean world. It rose to prominence in the late Bronze Age, centuries before the great Greek states of Athens, Sparta and Corinth, and is known as the birthplace of mythical bronze age figures such as Agammemnon, King of the Greeks. But how do know so much about it? What remains of this once glittering Greek citadel?
In today's episode of The Ancients Tristan Hughes is joined by Dr Jorrit Kelder to talk through Mycenae's archeology - from its Cyclopaean stone walls and monumental tholos tombs, to it’s golden face masks and great lion entrance gate.
Presented by Tristan Hughes. Edited by Aidan Lonergan. The producer is Joseph Knight, the senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Tristan here and I have an exciting announcement. The ancients has been invited to open |
| 0:06.1 | the London Podcast Festival. We will be recording our very first live show on Thursday the 5th of September at 7 p.m. at King's Place |
| 0:15.6 | and being the first live show where we want it to be extra special so I've |
| 0:20.1 | invited a friend of the podcast Professor Lloyd L Luellen Jones, to join me on stage |
| 0:24.8 | where we will be diving into the captivating story of the Tower of Babel. |
| 0:29.7 | From its first mention in the Book of Genesis to the real life great ancient Babylonian structure |
| 0:35.3 | that it was based on. Of course the ancient is nothing without you, so we want you to be there |
| 0:41.3 | in the audience taking part and asking us your burning questions. |
| 0:45.6 | Tickets for the festival always sell fast, so book yourself a seat now at |
| 0:50.0 | www. King'splace.co. UK. forward slash what's on or click the link in the show |
| 0:56.7 | notes of this episode I really hope to see you there Athens, Sparta, Corinth, some of the most famous cities of the ancient Greek world. |
| 1:16.9 | But centuries before these cities rose to prominence, there was another great center in mainland Greece, the home of famous mythical bronze age figures, such as Agamemnon, king of the Greeks and leader of their forces in the Trojan War, but also his wife and in some stories |
| 1:36.2 | murderer Clytem Nestra. This city was my Sinai. |
| 1:46.0 | It's the ancients on history hit. I'm Tristan Hughes, your host, and today we're talking all about the Bronze Age |
| 1:52.0 | City of my cenae, more than 3,000 years old. |
| 1:57.0 | Overlooking the Argyllid plain in the eastern Peloponese today, Mycenai was a powerful Bronze Age city. You can visit it today, you can walk |
| 2:07.0 | through its cyclope and stone walls, enter the monumental Tholos tombs, the treas of Atreus and Clytemnestra. the could see the remains of a Bronze Age Mycenaean road. |
| 2:26.4 | Mycenai was a rich and powerful city back in the Bronze Age. |
| 2:31.3 | I've been to the site, it is without a doubt one of my |
| 2:35.0 | favorite places in the world up there with the likes of Klachtol-Lubroch and the |
| 2:41.1 | temple of Luxor. So I'm delighted to now be doing an episode all about it. |
| 2:47.6 | To talk through my Sinai's archaeology from gold face masks to the great lion entrance gate, well I was delighted to interview Dr Jorret |
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