GREECE PELOPONNESE MESSINIA ENGLIANOS PALACE

Above: Staircases led up to a not preserved second floor. Usually, these staircases are separated by a corridor from the central rooms, which apparently had no second storey.

Above: A large central hearth typifies the royal megaron, the king's throneroom. Its rim is decorated with painted flames. - Below: The king's megaron was elaborately decorated with frescoes, some of which are exhibited in the museum of Chora.

Above: The Queen's megaron is located in the eastern part of the main building. It also has a central hearth, although smaller than the one in the throneroom.

Below: Next to the Queen's megaron is the bathroom with a clay bath tub, on its upper part decorated with a spiral motif. A stone step made the access easier. Two large receptacles, 1.2 m high, contained the bath water. Servants poured it onto the bather from shallow bowls, nine of which have been found here. - The Odyssey tells about Odysseus's son Telemachos who has come from his home island of Ithaca to seek news of his father from King Nestor. No news of his father is to be had, but after being feasted, Telemachos is taken to the palace to be bathed and anointed with oil by Nestor’s beautiful and youngest daughter, Polycaste, from which salubrious treatment he acquires the "body of an immortal".