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"Mycenae" a Mycenae Travel Page by Aitana

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Mycenae

by Aitana - last update: Nov 4, 2008

In Mycenae, one cannot avoid to think about the Atreid dynasty, linked to the Trojan War. The king Atreus (one of the tholos is called Treasury of Atreus); his sons Agamemnon and Menelaus, kings of Mycenae and Sparta, that conducted the Trojan war; the return of Agamemnon and his murder by Clytemnestra, aided in her crime by Aegistheus; Orestes, son of Agamemnon, and Elektra and Iphigenia, Agamemnon’s daughters…
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