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Definition of Mycenae

1. Noun. An ancient city is southern Greece; center of the Mycenaean civilization during the late Bronze Age.

Definition of Mycenae

1. Proper noun. An ancient Greek city in the NE Peloponnesus on the plain of Argos, inhabited since about 4000 (B.C.E.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Mycenae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. New Chapters in Greek History: Historical Results of Recent Excavations in by Percy Gardner (1892)
"The mention of handles implies the use by the Carians of small round metal shields : at Mycenae only the large scutum suspended by a strap from the neck was ..."

2. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1878)
"Mycenae. By DR. HENRY SCHLIEMANN. New York: Scrib- ner, Armstrong, & Company. 1878. ... Certainly the book on Mycenae is much easier and pleasanter reading, ..."

3. Sculptured Tombs of Hellas by Percy Gardner (1896)
"That there was some not distant relation between the sepulchral art of Phrygia and that of Mycenae cannot be denied. It would however be a mistake hence to ..."

4. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1879)
"This negative evidence is so strong, that my concession about the survival of Tiryns and Mycenae as villages must be given up, and the early destruction of ..."

5. Problems in Greek History by John Pentland Mahaffy (1892)
"Mycenae preserved in legend only. to be a struggle of many Greek chiefs, at a time when Mycenae was the richest capital, against the wealth and discipline ..."

6. Problems in Greek History by John Pentland Mahaffy (1892)
"Mycenae preserved in legend only. General teaching of the epic poems. to be a struggle of many Greek chiefs, at a time when Mycenae was the richest capital, ..."

7. A Handbook of Greek Sculpture by Ernest Arthur Gardner (1896)
"... could still remember the glories of Mycenae and Sparta, although they had been driven forth by Dorian invaders to find a tiew home across the Aegean. ..."

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