Civilization · Middle and Late Bronze Age · Mycenaean Greece

Mycenaean Greece

c. 1750–1050 BCE

Mycenaean Greece was the civilization of the Iliad: warrior kings in walled citadels who sailed against Troy. Its palaces at Mycenae and Pylos kept the first Greek writing. It collapsed about 1050 BCE in the Bronze Age catastrophe.

Facts

Founded: c. 1750 BCE, the shaft grave kings at Mycenae.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Mycenaean civilization
Ended: c. 1050 BCE, the palaces destroyed.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Mycenaean civilization
Heartland: The Greek mainland and the Aegean, center at Mycenae.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Mycenaean civilization
Major rulers: Agamemnon, the legendary king of the Iliad.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Mycenaean civilization

Images

The Lion Gate of Mycenae, entrance to the Bronze Age citadel. (Wikimedia Commons)

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