Where Mycenae was
Mycenae was an ancient settlement of the Argolid, with the earliest occupation evident ca. 2900 B.C. As the eponymous site of the Mycenaean culture of the Aegean Bronze Age, the site flourished as a fortified citadel during the mid to late second millennium B.C. In the first millennium B.C., the site experienced a revival of fortunes, although by Strabo's time the settlement had vanished. Athenaeum places it in the Peloponnese region. The source gives an approximate location.
Periods the source attests
These are the historical periods in which the source records the place. A gap is not evidence that it was empty.
- Bronze Age
- Hellenistic world
- Roman world
- Late antiquity
Its names
The source lists these other names and spellings for Mycenae.
- Μυκῆναι
- Mykenai, Mykenai, Mukênai
- Micenis
- Mykene
- Micenas
- Mycènes
About the illustration
Generated historical interpretation. Not an archaeological reconstruction.
Questions about ancient Mycenae
Where does the information about Mycenae come from?
From the place's record in the Pleiades gazetteer, with its references, names and periods kept as the source gives them.
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