Mycenaeans
Ancient Aegean civilization
The Mycenaeans were a Bronze Age civilization that flourished in Greece from roughly 1600 to 1100 BCE.
They built fortified palace complexes at Mycenae, Tiryns, and Pylos, and their warrior culture likely inspired Homer's epics.
Mycenaean refers to this civilization or its people: Mycenaean pottery, Mycenaean Greek.
The civilization's collapse ushered in a Greek dark age.
Early metalworking civilization period
- MinoansAncient Cretan civilization
- AegeanEastern Mediterranean sea
- PeloponneseSouthern Greek peninsula
- palatialLavishly grand and spacious
citadel · Argos · warrior culture · trade networks · amphorae · frescoes · goldsmithing · metallurgy
Act of unearthing
- artifactHuman-made historical object
- stratigraphyStudy of rock layers
- citadelFortified urban stronghold
- potteryFired clay objects
Bronze Age
Early metalworking civilization period
- MinoansAncient Cretan civilization
- AegeanEastern Mediterranean sea
- PeloponneseSouthern Greek peninsula
palatial · citadel · Argos · warrior culture · trade networks · amphorae · frescoes · goldsmithing · metallurgy · chariots
excavation
Act of unearthing
- artifactHuman-made historical object
- stratigraphyStudy of rock layers
- citadelFortified urban stronghold
Agamemnon
Mycenaean king, war leader
Patroclus · Ajax · Nestor · Helen · Troy · siege · Priam · Hector · Paris · Greek mythology
Iliad
Ancient Greek war epic
epic · oral tradition · bard · hexameter · dactylic · heroes · demigods · heroic age