Crossword clues for mycenaean
mycenaean
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "pertaining to Mycenae," the ancient city on the Argive plain, from Latin Mycenaeus, from Greek Mykenaios "of Mycenae," from Mykenai. In reference to the Aegean civilization that flourished 1500-1100 B.C.E. and was centered on Mycenae, it is from 1890s.
Wikipedia
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 associated with the Mycenaean Greeks
Usage examples of "mycenaean".
Such helmets, and artistic representations of them, have been found at Mycenaean sites, on Crete, at Mycenae, on Delos, but never in late archaeological contexts.
Troy has generally a Mycenaean appearance, but we may be reminded of the Panathenaea by the temple, the procession, and the statue of the goddess.
Questions of date or provenance dominated: What elements in the poems were Mycenaean or protogeometric and early Greek?
Themes commonly discussed in Apasas, city of his birth, and the lands of the Hatti from Kadesh to Sardis, were too abstract for these gross Mycenaean minds.
It started back about two thousand years before Christ, in Mycenaean times or perhaps early Helladic.