Sparta was supposedly ruled in the Mycenaean ‘Heroic Age’ by King Oebalus, his son Hippocoon and grandson Tyndareus, and then the latter’s son-in-law Menelaus, cuckolded husband of Helen and brother of ‘High King’ Agamemnon of Mycenae. Dan chats to Dr Helen Farr about how the Black Sea’s anaerobic waters have preserved ancient ships for many centuries, including a Greek ship very similar to one on an urn in the British Library Listen Now 2.
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