places

• rooms in a mycenaean palace:

  • colonnades
  • armouries
  • megaron
  • oil press
  • storeroom (for food)
• megaron design:


  • highest part of city
  • rectangular
  • columns
  • courtyard
• hearth design:


  • circular stone area - where fire was lit
  • for cooking and religious use
  • surrounded by 4 columns
  • supported the roof
  • had a hole in it to let smoke out
• what did a megaron contain? why?

  • a throne for the king
  • was used in feasts
  • onlooking to killings and poetry reading