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The military nature of Mycenaean Greece (c. 1600–1100 BC) in the Late Bronze Age is evident by the numerous weapons unearthed, warrior and combat representations in contemporary art, as well as by the preserved Greek Linear B records. The Mycenaeans invested in the development of military infrastructure with military production and logistics ...
A description of a boar's tusk helmet appears in book ten of Homer 's Iliad, as Odysseus is armed for a night raid to be conducted against the Trojans. Meriones gave Odysseus a bow, a quiver and a sword, and put a cleverly made leather helmet on his head. On the inside there was a strong lining on interwoven straps, onto which a felt cap had ...
Mycenaean 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. [1] It represents the first advanced and distinctively Greek civilization in mainland Greece with its palatial states, urban organization, works of art, and writing system.
Mycenae (/ m aɪ ˈ s iː n iː / my-SEE-nee; [2] Mycenaean Greek: 𐀘𐀏𐀙𐀂; Ancient Greek: Μυκῆναι or Μυκήνη, Mykē̂nai or Mykḗnē) is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece.
Ancient Greek military personal equipment. A Greek hoplite with muscle cuirass, spear, shield, Corinthian helmet and sheathed sword. Ancient Greek weapons and armor were primarily geared towards combat between individuals. Their primary technique was called the phalanx, a formation consisting of massed shield wall, which required heavy frontal ...
1350–1100 BC. LMIIIB. Minoan art is the art produced by the Bronze Age Aegean Minoan civilization from about 3000 to 1100 BC, though the most extensive and finest survivals come from approximately 2300 to 1400 BC. It forms part of the wider grouping of Aegean art, and in later periods came for a time to have a dominant influence over Cycladic ...
George Emmanuel Mylonas was born on December 21, [O.S. December 9] 1898, to a Greek-speaking family in Smyrna in Ionia, then part of the Ottoman Empire. [2]According to a 1958 profile, he first took an interest in archaeology at the age of eight, when his father's gardener unearthed an ancient burial on the family property. [3]
Mycenaean may refer to: Something from or belonging to the ancient town of Mycenae in the Peloponnese in Greece. Mycenaean Greece, the Greek-speaking regions of the Aegean Sea as of the Late Bronze Age. Mycenaean language, an ancient form of Greek. Helladic period, the material-cultural period in the eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age ...