Palace of Nestor

 interesting place, fenced area

Mycenaean palace, identified rightly or wrongly with Nestor, friend of Odysseus, and a key figure in Homer's tale of the Trojan War. While the dates might not match exactly, there are some remarkable features of the structures here that match exactly the scenes described by Homer. In particular, the great hearth, around which Nestor and his entourage feast when Telemachus, son of Odysseus, pays a call, and the wonderfully preserved terracotta bathing tubs, which also are mentioned in the Odyssey:

What a brilliant place
that mansion of the great prince seemed to them!
A-glitter everywhere, as though with fiery
points of sunlight, lusters of the moon.
The young men gazed in joy before they entered
into a room of polished tubs to bathe.

(from The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald)

Although there is little preserved beyond the foundations and a few courses of stone walls, there is something incredibly evocative about standing in a room that very well might have hosted Homer's heroes some three thousand years ago. --grecodan