The Tomb of Agamemnon: Mycenae and the Search for a Hero by Cathy Gere

The Tomb of Agamemnon: Mycenae and the Search for a Hero

Wonders of the World

Cathy Gere

208 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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From Homer to Himmler, from Thucydides to Freud, Mycenae has occupied a singular place in the western imagination. Gere takes us from the Cult of the Hero that sprung up in the shadow of the great burned walls in the eighth century BC, to Agamemno...

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