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- Mycenae in Greek Mythology. Mycenae’s true origins are unknown. According to Greek mythology, Perseus—son of the Greek god Zeus and Danae, who was the daughter of Acricio, the king of ...
- Archaeological Site of Mycenae. Mycenae is situated in a naturally fortified position between the sloping hills of Profitis Ilias and Mount Sara, located some 20 km southwest of the Mycenaean ...
- Development of Mycenae. Archaeological studies suggest the area of Mycenae was first occupied in the Neolithic Age dating back to about the 7th millennium B.C.
- Mycenaean Civilization. In the Iliad, Homer aptly described Mycenae as “rich in gold.” Mycenaeans enjoyed a prosperous rule over the Greek mainland and areas around the Aegean Sea, with the ...
- Fall of Mycenae. Mycenae and the Mycenaean civilization began to decline around 1200 B.C. Mycenae’s people abandoned the citadel around 100 years later after a series of fires.
- Destruction of Mycenae. During the Greek Archaic period (8th to 5th centuries B.C.), a temple dedicated to Hera or Athena was erected on the summit of the Mycenaean citadel.
- Excavation of Mycenae. In 1837, the Mycenae archaeological site came under the jurisdiction of the Greek Archaeological Society.
- Sources. Mycenae; Ministry of Culture and Sports. Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns; UNESCO. Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. ...
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Mycenaean Greece. 3.1 Early Mycenaean period and Shaft grave era (c. 1750–1400 BC) 3.2 Koine era or Palatial Bronze Age (c. 1400 BC–1200 BC) 3.2.1 Involvement in Asia Minor. 3.3 Collapse or Postpalatial Bronze Age (c. 1200–1050 BC) 3.3.1 Initial decline and revival.
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See moreMycenaean Greece (or the Mycenaean civilization) was the last phase of the Bronze Age in Ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC. It represents the first advanced and distinctively
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See moreThe decipherment of the Mycenaean Linear B script, a writing system adapted for the use of the (Indo-European) Greek language of the Late Bronze Age,
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See moreEarly Mycenaean period and Shaft grave era (c. 1750–1400 BC)
Scholars have proposed different theories on the origins of the Mycenaeans. According to one theory, Mycenaean civilization reflected the exogenous imposition of archaic...
See moreThe Bronze Age in mainland Greece is generally termed as the "Helladic period" by modern archaeologists, after Hellas, the Greek name for Greece. This period is divided into three subperiods: The Early Helladic (EH) period (c. 3200–2000 BC) was a time of prosperity
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See morePalatial states
Mycenaean palatial states, or centrally organized palace-operating polities, are recorded in ancient Greek literature and mythology (e.g.,...
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