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The Wrath of Achilles — real places & people
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Homer's Iliad · companion · A photo wiki for travellers and curious readers. Troy is archaeology now; Mycenae and Tiryns are stone you can still walk. The war Homer sung happened — if it happened — on this ground. Read online · All place wikis
Places of awe — Troy and the Troad
Hisarlık (Troy) — nine cities stacked on one hill.
Ziegler175, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The Scaean Gate excavation — where Hector crossed and did not return.
Carole Raddato, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Places of awe — Mycenaean Greece
Lion Gate, Mycenae — Agamemnon's threshold.
Ziegler175, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Treasury of Atreus — beehive tomb, bronze-age engineering.
Greek National Tourism Organisation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Tiryns — cyclopean walls Homer called the work of giants.
Ziegler175, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Things of wonder (made by hand)
Mask of Agamemnon — gold face from the shaft graves.
National Archaeological Museum of Athens, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Achilles and Ajax playing dice — Exekias, circa 540 BC.
José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
All photographs are freely licensed (public domain / CC) via Wikimedia Commons. See each caption for author and licence.