Menelaion

The archaeological site of Menelaion is 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).

Menelaion was a Mycenaean acropolis (founded 15th - 12th centuries BC), with a building that was built in three phases and probably had a palatial character. Count of the Achaeans, perhaps identical with the Sparta of the Homeric epic. In a place of perhaps prehistoric worship, on a hill, a sanctuary of Menelaus and Helen, who were worshiped here as gods, was founded in geometric times. Remains of two men with rectangular analemmas, one enclosing the other (6th and 5th centuries BC). Uphill access leads to the foundations of a rectangular temple inside.

Address
Sparta, Greece

Established
1400 BCE