Name: Mask of Agamemnon. What it is: A gold funerary mask of a man's face. Where it is from: Mycenae, an archaeological site ...

Made of gold, the real mask was found in a Mycenaean grave in 1876 by the “notorious” archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who “claimed it belonged to the legendary Greek king Agamemnon.” The mask ...

Aeschylus would appreciate the irony. His ancient Greek tragedy “Agamemnon,” the story of a disastrous war in the Middle East, now plays at the Getty Villa, a palace of classical culture ...

Yesterday afternoon Professor H. W. Smyth '78 of the Greek Department, who is one of the three professors in charge of the Greek Play, gave a lecture on "The Agamemnon of Aeschylus." ...

Schliemann believed he had found the body of the mythical king Agamemnon, who led the Achaean (Greek) siege of Troy in Homer's "Iliad” (he is also mentioned in Homer's "Odyssey" and features in ...