Qualla: Tomb of Clytemnestra https://qualla.com/tomb-of-clytemnestra en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:36 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/n/tomb-of-clytemnestra-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tomb of Clytemnestra https://qualla.com/tomb-of-clytemnestra Tomb of Clytemnestra: Introduction https://qualla.com/tomb-of-clytemnestra/ Photo credit Christian Vandendorpe, CC BY-SA 4.0. The name is a romantic inheritance, not an archaeological one. 'Clytemnestra' — the queen who, in Greek mythology, helped murder her husband Agamemnon on his return from the Trojan War — was attached to this tholos tomb at Mycenae by later scholars following the logic of association: a great tomb near the tomb already called 'Agamemnon's Treasury' might plausibly belong to his queen. The ancient geographer Pausanias mentioned that Clytemnestra and Aegisthus were buried outside Mycenae's walls, because murdering a king disqualified you from burial inside them. Heinrich Schliemann followed Pausanias's text to search the area and excavated here. But no body was found. The chamber, like all nine of Mycenae's royal tholos tombs, had been thoroughly looted in antiquity. What survived was the architecture, and that is more than enough.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/n/tomb-of-clytemnestra-wp/sw8n-tomb-of-clytemnestra-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tomb of Clytemnestra: Last of the Nine https://qualla.com/tomb-of-clytemnestra/ Photo credit George E. Koronaios, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Tomb of Clytemnestra was built around 1250 BC, making it the last of the nine royal tholos tombs constructed in the vicinity of the citadel of Mycenae during the 15th and 13th centuries BC. The tholos tomb form — a circular burial chamber with a high corbelled dome reached by...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/n/tomb-of-clytemnestra-wp/sw8n-tomb-of-clytemnestra-last-of-the-nine.mp3 0:06 2 full Tomb of Clytemnestra: The Façade That Inspired Centuries https://qualla.com/tomb-of-clytemnestra/ Photo credit Jean Housen, CC BY 3.0. What distinguishes the Tomb of Clytemnestra above all is its entrance façade. The dromos — the long approach passage — is lined with walls of ashlar conglomerate, the same material used for the doorway. But the exterior face of the stomion (the doorway proper) is decorated with h...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/n/tomb-of-clytemnestra-wp/sw8n-tomb-of-clytemnestra-the-fa-ade-that-inspired-centuries.mp3 0:06 3 full Tomb of Clytemnestra: What Schliemann Found — and Didn't https://qualla.com/tomb-of-clytemnestra/ Photo credit Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0. Heinrich Schliemann arrived at Mycenae in the 1870s following Pausanias's description of the site, and he excavated the Tomb of Clytemnestra as part of his broader campaign to find the heroes of the Trojan War in the archaeological record. The inner burial chamber was empty — loo...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/n/tomb-of-clytemnestra-wp/sw8n-tomb-of-clytemnestra-what-schliemann-found-and-didnt.mp3 0:06 4 full Tomb of Clytemnestra: A Question Still Open https://qualla.com/tomb-of-clytemnestra/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. Modern scholars have raised an intriguing alternative to the 'Clytemnestra' identification: some have suggested that the tomb might have been Agamemnon's rather than his queen's, or that it may never have been occupied at all, given that Mycenae faced destruction during the perio...

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