Taking home Agamemnon

The Casts of the Lion Gate at Mycenae

The Lion Gate at Mycenae is an icon, a piece of art more than 3300 years old, representing the glory of Mycenaean Greece. Preserved in situ, it has passed through time and circumstance, witnessing its own civilisation fail and many others flourishing since. Often considered as an emblem for the royal house of Mycenae, it is the only surviving piece of large-scale sculpture of the Greek Bronze Age. The quality of its creation, its symbolic force, and its prime position towering above the entrance gate to the site that epitomizes a period that gave rise to enumerable legends may be seen as framing the atmosphere in which this book was written. Already in the 19th c., the relief was moulded and casts were produced to be exhibited in museums and universities. This volume traces 33 casts, some no longer existing, and tells their stories.


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Publisher
Presses universitaires de Louvain
Author
Jan Driessen, Tina Kalantzopoulou,
Collection
AEGIS
Language
English
BISAC Subject Heading
SOC003000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
BIC subject category (UK)
HD Archaeology > HDD Archaeology by period / region > HDDK Classical Greek & Roman archaeology
Onix Audience Codes
06 Professional and scholarly
Title First Published
29 October 2024
Subject Scheme Identifier Code
: Archéologie

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Publication Date
29 October 2024
ISBN-13
9782390615149
Extent
Main content page count : 110
Code
107592
Dimensions
210 x 297 cm
Weight
27463 grams
Packaging Type
No outer packaging
List Price
23.00 €
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Version 2.1, Version 3

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Publication Date
29 October 2024
ISBN-13
9782390615156
Code
107592PDF
ONIX XML
Version 2.1, Version 3

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Contents


Foreword 1
Introduction: Finding the Gate 3
Revealing the Gate 7
Before Schliemann 7
Schliemann at Mycenae 14
Casting the Gate 20
An Athenian mould? 21
A German mould 23
A Malpieri (?) and Martinelli mould 24
Other moulds? 26
Casts of the Lion Gate – existing or no longer so 27
Technical Aspects 59
The Lion Gate 'recast': Taking Home Agamemnon 65
Non-Reception of the cast 65
Appreciating the Lion Gate 66
Recasting the cast 68
References 74
List of Illustrations 89
Index 93