Menelaion
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The Menelaion () is an archaeological site in Laconia, Greece, located approximately 5 km from the modern city of Sparta. The geographical structure of this site includes a hill complex (Northern hill, Menelaion, Profitis Ilias and Aetos). The archaic name of the place is mentioned as Therapne ().
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- Instance of
- Heroön
- Named after
- Menelaus
- Country
- Greece
- Located in
- Sparta Municipality
- Location
- Therapne
- Dedicated to
- Helen of Troy
- Official website
- odysseus.culture.gr/h/3/gh351.jsp?obj_id=2559
- Image
- Therapne, Menelaion from NE (1988) 01.jpg
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- described at URL
- odysseus.culture.gr/h/2/gh251.jsp?obj_id=6521
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- Menelaion
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- General context
- Ideology
- Excavations
- Ludwig Ross
- John Percival Droop, M. S. Thompson, and Alan Wace
- Hector Catling
- Richard Catling
- Stratigraphy
- See also
- References
- External links
The Menelaion () is an archaeological site in Laconia, Greece, located approximately 5 km from the modern city of Sparta. The geographical structure of this site includes a hill complex (Northern hill, Menelaion, Profitis Ilias and Aetos). The archaic name of the place is mentioned as Therapne ().
==General context== Fluvial deposits of the valley of Eurotas, mild climate and low hills which protect the area, are forming the general geographical and geological context of the archaeological site which revealed few Middle Helladic findings on the Northern hill and major settlement of the Mycenaean period in the Menelaion.
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