The megaron is the "great hall" of Minoan-Mycenaean culture, a rectangular hall, fronted by an open, two-columned porch and a more or less central hearth traditional in Greece since Mycenaean times. Mycenaean can have the following meanings: coming from or belonging to the ancient town of Mycenae in Pelloponese in Greece; belonging to the culture of the Mycenaean period of the eastern Mediterranean in the late Bronze Age; the Mycenaean language, an ancient form of Greek, known from inscriptions in Linear...
A famous megaron is in the large reception hall of the king in the palace of Tiryns, the main room of which had a throne placed against the right wall and a central hearth bordered by four Minoan-style wooden columns that served as supports for the roof. Tiryns is a Mycenaean site in the Peloponnesian peninsula in Greece. ... Minoan may refer to the following: The Minoan civilization The Minoan, or Eteocretan language This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
The megaron of Odysseus is well described in the Odyssey. Odyssey - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...
References
Biers, William R. 1987. The Archaeology of Greece: An Introduction. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press)
Klein, Christopher P. (Editor in Chief) Gardner's Art Through the Ages. Tenth edition. Harcourt Brace (1996). ISBN 0155011413
Vermeule, Emily, 1972. Greece in the Bronze Age (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
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