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Definition of Mycenaean civilisation

1. Noun. The late bronze-age culture of Mycenae that flourished 1400-1100 BC.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mycenaean Civilisation

Literary usage of Mycenaean civilisation

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

1. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"Mycenaean civilisation (1600-1100 BC) T/u records The rise of a civilisation on Greek soil, very similar to Cretan, and \f undoubtedly under Cretan ..."

2. Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout the Ages by Salomon Reinach (1907)
"The Three Periods of Prehistoric Greek Art.—Destruction of the Mycenaean civilisation by Barbarians. ..."

3. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias (1898)
"But this theory of the Carian origin of the Mycenaean civilisation has not ... It has been pointed out that the Mycenaean civilisation extended over a far ..."

4. Schliemann's Excavations: An Archaeological and Historical Study by Karl Schuchhardt (1891)
"But these isolated cases give us no more right to suppose that these two islands were seats of Mycenaean civilisation than Mr. Petrie's discoveries would ..."

5. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1901)
"These discoveries seem to me to prove that in Crete at least the race of the Mycenaean civilisation was not Hellenic and not Aryan. ..."

6. The Mediterranean Race: A Study of the Origin of European Peoples by Giuseppe Sergi (1901)
"These already possessed a pre-Mycenaean civilisation in common with the Mediterranean or Afro-Mediterranean civilisation, and received from the new ..."

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