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Erich Lessing

A REGAL ENTRANCE. Built around 1260 B.C., the Lion Gate guards the entrance to Mycenae, a powerful Bronze Age citadel. The city thrived from 1600–1100 B.C. and, according to the Iliad, was once ruled by King Agamemnon, brother of Menelaus and leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War.