When the great but much-maligned father of Bronze Age archaeology Heinrich Schliemann was digging in Mycenae, he opened up numerous shaft graves within the walled citadel. The finds are well known, including the golden so-called 'Mask of Agamemnon.'

The so-called "Tomb of Minyas" is a Mycenaean tholos tomb in Orchomenos in Boeotia, one of the most northern outposts of Bronze Age Greece. It would have been used by successive generations of the rulers of the late Bronze Age city. A ruined palace is nearby.

“Eagle, why do you stand on the tomb? Whose is it, tell me, and why do you stare at the sky?” “I am the image of Plato’s soul that has flown to Olympus; Attic soil holds his mortal remains.” Greek Anthology 7.62

Boar’s tusk helmet made from the teeth of a wild boar. Chamber tomb cemetery at Kalkani, Tomb 515. 14th century B.C.

Amazing how the tombs of nine successive Achaemenid rulers (~ 580 to 340 B.C.) are known: Kings Cyrus I, Cambyses I & II, Darius I & II, Xerxes, Artaxerxes I, II, III. They are at Naqsh-e Rostam (rock-cut), Persepolis (rock-cut), and Pasargadae (mausoleums).

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It's an unwritten law not to go to the agora naked or wear women's clothing.

Artaxerxes I was the fifth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, from August 465 to December 424 B.C. In Greek sources he is also surnamed "long-handed" (μακρόχειρ), allegedly because his right hand was longer than his left, as Plutarch tells us in the Life of Artaxerxes.

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Certain ancient sources report that Aristotle advised Antipater to poison Alexander the Great. Plutarch discusses the method in his Life of Alexander: a cold pungent liquid was stored in the hoof of an ass and given to Alexander to drink.

"For I am writing Lives not history, and the truth is that the most brilliant exploits often tell us nothing of the virtues or vices of the men...while on the other hand a chance remark or a joke may reveal far more of a man's character..." Plutarch, prologue to Alexander