Wonders Of The World: The Tomb Of Agamemnon

In a remote corner of Greece stands Mycenae, the fabled city of Homer's King Agamemnon...

From Homer to Himmler, from Thucydides to Freud, Mycenae has occupied a singular place in the western imagination. Gere takes us from the Cult of the Hero that sprung up in the shadow of the great burned walls in the eighth century BC, to Agamemnon's twentieth-century reincarnation as an Aryan military genius and to the distinctly anti-heroic conclusions of modern archaeology.