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Mycenae or Mykenai (Ancient Greek: Μυκῆναι) was a town of ancient Crete, the foundation of which was attributed by an historian of the Augustan age to Agamemnon. [1] Jean Hardouin proposed to read Mycenae for Myrina , which is mentioned as a city of Crete in the text of Pliny the Elder .
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.
Crete (/ k r iː t / KREET; Greek: Κρήτη, Modern: Kríti, Ancient: Krḗtē [krɛ̌ːtεː]) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.
In the second millennium BC, Mycenae was one of the major centres of Greek civilisation, a military stronghold which dominated much of southern Greece, Crete, the Cyclades and parts of southwest Anatolia. The period of Greek history from about 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is called Mycenaean in reference to Mycenae.
The Minoan civilization based on the Greek island of Crete becomes Europe's first actual civilization. The culture of Mycenaean Greece (1600-1100 BC) offers the first written evidence of the Greek language. [23] Several Mycenaean attributes and achievements were borrowed or held in high regard in later periods.
Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age civilizations of Greece around the Aegean Sea.There are three distinct but communicating and interacting geographic regions covered by this term: Crete, the Cyclades and the Greek mainland. [1]
Mycenaean Crete (1 C, 6 P) D. Denyen (2 C, ... Mycenaean sites (6 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Mycenaean Greece" ... (island) K. Karkiya; List of kings of Athens;
Mycenaean Greek is the most ancient attested form of the Greek language, on the Greek mainland and Crete in Mycenaean Greece (16th to 12th centuries BC), before the hypothesised Dorian invasion, often cited as the terminus ad quem for the introduction of the Greek language to Greece.