希臘古蹟篇3- Mycenae & Trojar War

Recap of May 04 2005
Mycenae/ Mykines

 

在泰狄熊返回Syros 後，我獨個兒參加了雅典的本地遊去了

Pelponnese 參觀古蹟 ， 真眼界大開 ,聽導遊介紹,

這遺址在希臘有著重要江湖地位,是希臘文化遙籃,

每個考古學家,不約初而同留低幾條腳毛。

水晶晶一向對希臘的古蹟及古羅馬時代的歷史非常有興趣。

中學時代已買考古學書籍，可惜不懂看 , 只見到一堆亂石,

大部份只見到D石頭同泥沙；終於放左在書櫃成十年有多！


直至多年後跟左金牌鴨仔團去完地中海希臘及埃及回來後，

回家番看那書內, 這遺址正是書中記載著那個重要遺址,

哦！就系這裡，這些石頭，好彩沒有走全,

這裡是書籍有提到的其中一堆難石堆。

I went to Mycenae , Epidauraus with a local package tour when teddy bear went back to Syros for is work.  I was really impressed by what I have seen and I realized that this was one of the most important Archaeological site in the Bronze age. Something that I have been longing to see since I was teenage and it was in my first Archaeology  book.

不要小看這裡是殘垣斷壁，四處敗瓦！

每一件石頭也是千年文化、件件都系寶埃!

重有D去左雅典考古學博物館，好似Agememnon 個金面具。

如果吾明我講勿，吾僅要！記吾記得 Trojan War 果個Agamemnon (Prat Pitt)呀？帶領一隊兵去攻打Trojan (Troy)，
找Paris算將那個呀！Paris 偷左他大佬 Menelaos, King of Sparta 個老婆 Helen，這裡便是他的老家啦。


哦！原來系那個大隻佬 Agamemnon  的家鄉， 失覺！失覺！他回來之後，還被自已老婆 Klytemnestra 同她的情夫殺害。好似今晚意大利台會播！

This is the home town of Agamemnon,   the one who raised a fleet to Trojan,   to fight against Paris because  had stolen his brother, Menelaos’s wife Helen (King of Sparta) .  He sacrificed his daughter to obtain a favourable wind. When he returned he was murdered by his wife  Klytemnestra and her lover Aigisthos.

Peloponnese 這個雖然只有六公里闊半島，卻藏著很多古蹟的如Ancient Corinth , Mycenae , Epidauraus， Ancient Olympia,等，今次只去了Mycenae、Epidauraus 劇院及遊纜 Nafplio。
Pelponnes  is a enormous peninsular which of about 6 km width of the Corith isthmus, also has some of the most spectacular scenery and momuments  such as  Ancient Corinth, Mycenae, Epidauraus, Ancient Olympia.

Mycenean Civilization, 興茂於  Mikines, Tiryntha, Pilos。 Mycenae 是由一個 德國考古學家Heinrich Schliemann 於1847年發掘到的， 是其中一個 歷史上最久遠 的古代城邦，遠追溯到晚銅器時代1600-1100 BC. 古時只有諸侯才住在山丘上的皇宮內，其他平民、商人，藝術者都是住在城牆外。已於1100 BC走荒廢了。
Mycenean Civilization, flourished in Mikines, Tiryntha, Pilos,   an  entire culture spanning the from  1600-1100 BC. The fortified Palace complex of Mycenae uncovered by the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in 1874. It is one of the earliest examples of sophisticated citadel architectural. Only the ruling class inhabited this hilltop Palace  with  artisians and merchants living just outside the city walls. It was abandoned in 1100 BC after a period of great disruption in the region.
 

Lion Gate  the lion gate was erected in the 13 th cenury BC when the walls were realigned to enclose Grave circle A.

外圍那道14 米闊是不可能被破壞的，十分堅固，也不知古時怎樣建築的。
The Cyclopean walls up to 14 m wide were unbreachable. Later Greeks imagined that they had been built by giants.

Grave Circle A , this contained six royal family shaft-graves in which containing 19 bodies. The 14 kg of gold funerary goods are on display on Athen'sArchaeological Museum.


The houses of Mycenae yielded a number of tablets inscribed with an archaic script known as Linear B  deciphered by Michail Ventris in 1952. Linear B , is the first records of the greek language come from clay tablets.



非一般墓穴!!
起墳墓穴也大有學問，非一般的墓穴!! Mycenae 諸候及貴族是 埋葬於像Grave circle A內的長而窄的空間，或是左在他們叫”蜜蜂dau”建築物內，基本上由一個大圈開始，一層一層向內堆推進，像埃及人的金字塔，是個圓錐形的塔，最頂只剩一舊石頭。真利害，怎麼計算得咁準??之後再全個埋藏於泥土下，只剩一個長而窄的開放式通道。

The Tombs of Mycenae
The Mycenae ’s nobles were entombed in shaft graves such as Grave circle A or later in beehive (tholos) tombs. The beehive tombs found outside the palace walls. They were built using successive circles of masonry each level nudged steadily inward to narrow  the diameter until the top  could be closed with a single stone. The entire structure was then buried. At the end, save for an entrance approached by a dromos or open-air corridor.
 

Information also from Eyewitness Travel Guide- DK