- The
archaeological site of
Menelaion (translit. Menelaeion) (Ancient Gr****: Μενελάειον) is
located approximately 5 km from the
modern city of Sparta....
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small and
simple houses built with
stone foundations and clay walls. The
Menelaion is a
shrine ****ociated with Menelaus,
located east of Sparta, by the river...
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buried beneath present-day Sparta.
Modern findings suggest the area
around Menelaion in the
southern part of the
Eurotas valley seems to have been the center...
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Aphrodite Ambologera Areia Temple Artemis Caryatis Isora Orthia)
Hyacinth Menelaion Festivals Carneia Gymnopaedia Hyacinthia Xanthika Legacy Laconophilia...
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Aphrodite Ambologera Areia Temple Artemis Caryatis Isora Orthia)
Hyacinth Menelaion Festivals Carneia Gymnopaedia Hyacinthia Xanthika Legacy Laconophilia...
- The
earliest palace structures were megaron-type buildings, such as the
Menelaion in Sparta, Lakonia.
Palaces proper are
datable from c. 1400 BC, when Cyclopean...
- from a
daughter of Lelex. The
place was
distinguished for
housing the
Menelaion, a
temple to Menelaus,
where it was
believed that the
bodies of Helen...
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Aphrodite Ambologera Areia Temple Artemis Caryatis Isora Orthia)
Hyacinth Menelaion Festivals Carneia Gymnopaedia Hyacinthia Xanthika Legacy Laconophilia...
- H. W. Catling, "A Late
Bronze Age House- or Sanctuary-Model from the
Menelaion, Sparta," BSA 84 (1989) 171-175. Burkert, p. 132,
including quote; Burkert:...
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Messenian detachment and
failing to
prevent Macedon from
capturing the
Menelaion,
Lycurgus was
denounced by the
ephors and once
again went into exile,...
