MYCENAE

mīsēˈnē, ancient city of Greece, in Argolis. In historical times it had little importance and was usually dependent on Argos. Its significance is in its remote past as a center of Mycenaean civilization. The famous Lion Gate, which led into the city, and the Treasury of Atreus, the largest of the beehive tombs outside the walls of the city, are the most notable of its ancient remains.

See A. J. B. Wace, Mycenae (1949, repr. 1964); A. E. Samuel, The Mycenaeans in History (1966).

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Ancient Mycenae: the Capital City of Agamemnon
Book by George E. Mylonas; Princeton University Press, 1957
Subjects: Mycenae (Extinct City)
Ancient Mycenae THE CAPITAL CITY OF AGAMEMNON THE...AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Ancient Mycenae THE CAPITAL CITY OF AGAMEMNON...part in the excavations conducted at Mycenae in 1952-1954, when the second and new...
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Crete and Mycenae
Book by Max Hirmer, Spyridon Marinatos; H. N. Abrams, 1960
Subjects: Art, Minoan, Art, Mycenaean
CRETE AND MYCENAE I VIEW FROM NORTH OF THE PALACE OF...Amaltheia see Note page 115 CRETE AND MYCENAE TEXT BY SPYRIDON MARINATOS PHOTOGRAPHS...9 Mycenaean Greece 79...
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From Mycenae to Homer
Book by T. B. L. Webster; Methuen, 1958
Subjects: Art, Mycenaean, Civilization, Mycenaean, Greek Poetry--History And Criticism, Homer
FROM MYCENAE TO HOMER FROM MYCENAE TO HOMER T. B. L. Webster Professor of Greek University...Gods: Scribes: Literary texts. 7 2 MYCENAEAN ART IN ITS SETTING International art: Borrowing of ideas...
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From Mycenae to Constantinople: The Evolution of the Ancient City
Book by Richard Tomlinson; Routledge, 1992
FROM MYCENAE TO CONSTANTINOPLE Richard Tomlinson...at the University of Birmingham. FROM MYCENAE TO CONSTANTINOPLE The evolution of...Publication Data Tomlinson, R.A. From Mycenae to Constantinople: the evolution of...
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Excursions in Greece to Recently Explored Sites of Classical Interest: Mycenae, Tiryns, Dodona, Delos, Athens, Olympia, Eleusis, Epidaurus, Tanagra. a Popular Account of the Results of Recent Excavations
Book by Charles Diehl, Emma R. Perkins; H. Grevel and Co., 1893
Subjects: Greece--Antiquities
...Explored Sites of Classical Interest: MYCENAE, TIRYNS, DODONA, DELOS, ATHENS, OLYMPIA...circle of knowledge here so well planned. Mycenae very properly begins the volume. It is...The probable date of the remains at Mycenae and the main results of the excavations...
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BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS: On the Amenhotep III Inscribed Faience Fragments from Mycenae
Journal article by Christine Lilyquist; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 119, 1999
Subjects: Amenhotep III, Pharaoh of Egypt--Research, Egypt--History, Faience--Research, History, Ancient--Research
...III Inscribed Faience Fragments from Mycenae. by Christine Lilyquist...George Mylonas, and William Taylour at Mycenae and mostly inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs...from Egypt who returned (to Amarna) with Mycenaean pottery (1980: 45f.). Eric Cline stated...
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Isaac and Iphigeneia
Journal article by Peter Millett; European Judaism, Vol. 40, 2007
Subjects: Bible stories--Criticism and interpretation, Classical literature--Criticism and interpretation, Greek mythology, Isaac (Biblical figure)--Portrayals, Legendary characters--Portrayals
...war. His brother Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae, driven by ambition, succeeds in a campaign...a letter to Clytemnestra, back home in Mycenae, and tell her to bring Iphigeneia to Aulis...army could be roused to march against Mycenae. The suffocating presence of the army...
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Homer's Eutopolis: Epic Journeys and the Search for an Ideal Society *
Journal article by Annette Lucia Giescke; Utopian Studies, Vol. 14, 2003
...period to which the two grave circles at Mycenae, the city ruled by Homers King Agamemnon...palace; more Linear B tablets were found at Mycenae in 1952 and at Thebes in 1964. The tablets...that the wind-swept Trojan plain and Mycenae rich in gold actually existed. What Schliemann...
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Pater, Wilde, Douglas and the Impact of "Greats"
Journal article by William Shuter; English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Vol. 46, 2003
Subjects: Classical literature--Influence, Classical literature--Study and teaching, Pater, Walter--Criticism and interpretation, Wilde, Oscar--Criticism and interpretation
...sources: the discoveries of Schliemann at Mycenae in the first case and of Charles Newton...lectures on the history of Greek art. Mycenae had been excavated only in 1876, and Schliemanns...Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenae and Tiryns had just appeared in 1878...
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Domes
Journal article by H.J. Cowan; Architectural Science Review, Vol. 50, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Great Structures in Architecture from Antiquity to Baroque (Book)--Book reviews
...Italy; these stones are thus subject to some tension. The largest of these beehive domes is the so-called Treasury of Atreus in Mycenae in Ancient Greece. Prof. Escrig then deals with the invention of the true dome by the Romans, using stone voussoirs, brick...
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Electra
Magazine article by Celia Wren; Commonweal, Vol. 126, January 29, 1999
Subjects: Theater--Reviews
...Mourning for her father, King Agamemnon of Mycenae, years after her mother Clytemnestra killed...literal meaning for the desolation at Mycenae. Just as the plays drab color scheme appears...falls under her spell - even the Chorus of Mycenae (played as a knowing peasant woman in...
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Why Do We Still Read Homer?
Magazine article by Andrew Szegedy-Maszak; American Scholar, Vol. 71, Winter 2002
Subjects: Canon (Literature)--Criticism and interpretation, Classical antiquities, College faculty--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, College teachers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Literature
...Heinrich Schliemanns discoveries in Troy and Mycenae. Schliemann had made his fortune in business...another strike at another revered ancient site, Mycenae. One of the epithets applied to Mycenae in the Homeric poems is "rich in gold," and...
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Building Awareness
Magazine article by Dona Z. Meilach; Arts & Activities, Vol. 130, December 2001
Subjects: Architecture--Study and teaching, Art teachers--Technique
...was built. What are some of the worlds greatest buildings? Theres Stonehenge in England; The Parthenon and The Citadel of Mycenae in Greece; The Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia in Istanbul; La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona; The Great Wall of China; The Royal...
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The Indus Civilization: Sudeshna Guha Looks at the Archaeology of the Indus Civilization, the Bronze Age Phenomenon of South Asia, Whose Study Began under the British and Has Continued since Independence and Partition of the Country. She Considers How the Interpretations for This Civilization Have Shaped and Been Shaped by Notions of an Authentic 'Indian Civilization'
Magazine article by Sudeshna Guha; History Today, Vol. 57, October 2007
Subjects: Antiquities--Research, Bronze age--Research, Excavations (Archaeology)--India, Excavations (Archaeology)--Pakistan, Excavations (Archaeology)--Research, Indus Valley civilization--Research, Indus civilization--Research
...Sudeshna Guha ILLUSTRATION OMITTED Not often has it been to archaeologists, as it was given to Schliemann at Tiryns and Mycenae, or to Stein in the deserts of Turkestan, to light upon the remains of a long forgotten civilization. It looks, however, at...
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Recapture the Glory That Was Ancient Greece with This Brilliant Course ... Ancient Greek Civilization Offers 24 Information-Packed Lectures on One of the Greatest Cultures the World Has Ever Seen
Magazine article; National Review, Vol. 57, March 14, 2005
Subjects: Greek history--Study and teaching
...and Odyssey; Heinrich Schliemann s excavations at Troy and Mycenae; Aeschylus s Oresteia; and the traces left by the wealthy Greek...and the Western World 2. Minoan Crete 3. Schliemann and Mycenae 4. The Long Twilight 5. The Age of Heroes 6. From Sicily...
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An Ancient Hero Whose Mask Has Slipped
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), February 26, 2006
Subjects: Agamemnon (Play)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...among the ruins of a second fabled city: Mycenae, capital of Agamemnon, the High King...have haunted the imagination - and why Mycenae, that ancient place of blood and myth...to Sigmund Freud, the occupants of the Mycenaean shaft-graves were not just buried in...
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The Glory of Athens; Land of Ancient Greek Gods Offers Warm Welcome in Winter
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 5, 2008
...ruins are reached through three gates, each dating from a different century. MYCENAE, EPIDAURUS The road to the ruins of Mycenae passes through the modern village of Mycenae, where the names of cafes along the way suggest the popularity of the ruins...
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Finding Stories in Stones
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 19, 2004
Subjects: Schliemann, Heinrich
...his Troy - a walled city by the sea, straight out of the Iliad. The hoard of gold jewelry he found there was Helens own. At Mycenae, Schliemann unearthed a gold mask hiding a mummified face - Agamemnons face - that turned to dust after the archaeologist kissed...
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Travel 2001 : U.S. TOURING: HIT THE ROAD, JACK
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), January 13, 2001
...person, inc flights. Cosmos Tourama (0870 264 6012 ) offer a 10-day Best of Greece tour from pounds 629 inc. flights. Athens, Mycenae and Meteora are among the fascinating stops. Three-night extensions are available in Istanbul from pounds 210. Cosmos also...
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Embassy Row
Newspaper article by James Morrison; The Washington Times, August 31, 1999
Subjects: Ashcroft, John D., Foley, James
...Athens, he added. The Missouri-based Mycenaean Foundation, which appealed for Mr. Ashcrofts...Papandreou. Meanwhile, the mayor of Mycenae, Panagiotas Goritsas, is apparently unaware...schoolchildren gave "pennies and dimes to the Mycenaean Foundation" to help in the cause, Mr...
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encyclopedia articles on: Mycenae  - 13 results

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Mycenae
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MYCENAE mise ne, ancient city of Greece, in Argolis. In historical...Its significance is in its remote past as a center of Mycenaean civilization . The famous Lion Gate, which led into the...notable of its ancient remains. See A. J. B. Wace, Mycenae (1949, repr. 1964); A. E. Samuel, The Mycenaeans in...
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Mycenaean Civilization
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MYCENAEAN CIVILIZATION misene n, an ancient Aegean civilization known from the excavations at Mycenae and other sites. They were first undertaken by Heinrich...that of the contemporary Minoan civilization . The Mycenaeans entered Greece from the north or northeast c.2000 b.c...
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Agamemnon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AGAMEMNON a g mem non, in Greek mythology, leader of the Greek forces in the Trojan War; king of Mycenae (or Argos). He and Menelaus were sons of Atreus and suffered the curse laid upon Pelops . Agamemnon married Clytemnestra, and...
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Wace, Alan John Bayard
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...at Farouk I Univ., Alexandria (1943 52). Wace excavated at Sparta, Mycenae, Troy, Thessaly, Corinth, and Alexandria. His writings include Prehistoric Thessaly (1912); Mycenae, an Archaeological History and Guide (1949); and A Companion to...
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Greek Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Minoan civilization remain at Knossos and Phaestus on Crete. Of the later Mycenaean civilization , surviving examples are the Lions Gate at Mycenae and palaces at Mycenae and Tiryns. When the Dorians migrated into Greece (before 1000 b.c.) true...
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