On Wednesday we visited Lerna, home of the Lernaean Hydra, another of Herakles’ labors, and Tiryns, both in the Argolid. We saw the House of the Tiles, named so because there were tiles on the roof. That’s the first picture. The site was relatively small and not as impressive as Mycenae or Tiryns, but I still enjoyed it, especially when our professor pointed out the herringbone masonry! Shout out to good old Herringbone and her happy sailors!
At Tiryns we saw more cyclopean structures (walls built with impressively large stones), shaft graves and access to water within city walls. It is similar to Mycenae, perhaps made with even bigger stone blocks. My group discussed it in relation to Mycenae for the paper we have coming up, so we hypothesized about the kind of relationship these two citadels had.
My second to last picture is a tunnel within the wall at Tiryns, which my dad will enjoy: It was roped off so I couldn’t go down the passage, but at the end on the left of the picture there should be a slight shine on the stone. When shepherds would lead their sheep through this tunnel, the sheep’s wool buffed and polished these stones so that now they shine! Just a fun fact!
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