The vowels are significant in the Greek language, and the syllabical Linear B script which was used by the Mycenaean Greeks from the 16th century BC had 87 symbols including 5 vowels.

Documents in Mycenaean Greek ( Cambridge ).

The earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek feminine noun a-re-ka-sa-da-ra ( transliterated as Alexandra ), written in Linear B syllabic script.

However the exact relationship of the term Ahhiyawa to the Achaeans beyond a similarity in pronunciation is hotly debated by scholars, even following the discovery that Mycenaean Linear B is an early form of Greek ; the earlier debate was summed up in 1984 by Hans G. Güterbock of the Oriental Institute.

" The earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek a-re, written in Linear B syllabic script.

The Dendra panoply, Mycenaean Greece | Mycenaean Greek armour, circa 1400 BCE

It is thus the first site where the archaeology confirms the continuity of Mycenaean and Classical Greek religion, which has been inferred from the presence of the names of Classical Greek divinities on Linear B texts from Pylos and Knossos.

The earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek a-re-ka-sa-da-ra, written in Linear B syllabic script.

1450 BC ( Late Helladic, Late Minoan ), the Greek Mycenaean civilization spreads to Crete.

While connection with Anatolian names has been suggested, the earliest attested forms of the name Artemis are the Mycenaean Greek a-te-mi-to and a-ti-mi-te, written in Linear B at Pylos.

The Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean cultures are represented, and the Greek collection includes important sculpture from the Parthenon in Athens, as well as elements of two of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus and the Temple of Artemis at Ephesos.

The earliest attested form of the word κύμινον ( kuminon ) is the Mycenaean Greek ku-mi-no, written in Linear B syllabic script.

The earliest mention of the root " ceram -" is the Mycenaean Greek ke-ra-me-we, " workers of ceramics ", written in Linear b syllabic script.

The earliest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek se-ri-no, written in Linear B syllabic script.

The Mycenaean Greek name for Crete is unknown ; it is not mentioned in extant Linear B texts.

The earliest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek e-re-pa-to, written in Linear B syllabic script.

In Greek mythology, Eurystheus ( pronounced, meaning " broad strength " in folk etymology and pronounced ) was king of Tiryns, one of three Mycenaean strongholds in the Argolid, although other authors including Homer and Euripides cast him as ruler of Argos: Sthenelus was his father and the " victorious horsewoman " Nicippe his mother, and he was a grandson of the hero Perseus, as was his opponent Heracles.

** Mycenaean Greek, ( 16th to 11th centuries BC )

* Mycenaean Greek: the language of the Mycenaean civilization.

Words of non-Indo-European origin can be traced into Greek from as early as Mycenaean times ; they include a large number of Greek toponyms.

Linear B was the first script used to write Mycenaean Greek.

Greek " ναῦς " ( naus ), " ship ", " ναύτης " ( nautes ), " seaman, sailor " ( the earliest attested reference to the word is the Mycenaean Greek na-u-do-mo, " shipbuilders ", written in Linear B syllabic script ).

The period of Greek history from about 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is called Mycenaean in reference to Mycenae.

The earliest reference to Corfu is the Mycenaean Greek word ko-ro-ku-ra-i-jo (" man from Kerkyra ") written in Linear B syllabic script, ca.

After excavation, the discovery of the Linear B tablets, and the decipherment of Linear B by Michael Ventris, the identification was confirmed by the reference to an administrative center, ko-no-so, Mycenaean Greek Knosos, undoubtedly the palace complex.

The word comes from the Greek " λύρα " ( lyra ) and the earliest reference to the word is the Mycenaean Greek ru-ra-ta-e, meaning " lyrists ", written in Linear B syllabic script.

It is known from artistic evidence on pottery that the sport existed in the Mycenaean world, but the first literary reference to a chariot race is the one described by Homer, at the funeral games of Patroclus.

Amber ornaments have been found in Mycenaean tombs and elsewhere across Europe.

During the Acropolis excavations in Athens, which terminated in 1888, many potsherds of the Mycenaean style were found ; but Olympia had yielded either none, or such as had not been recognized before being thrown away, and the temple site at Delphi produced nothing distinctively Aegean ( in dating ).

The tentative identification of two fragmentary Mycenaean terracotta figures as centaurs, among the extensive Mycenaean pottery found at Ugarit, suggests a Bronze Age origin for these creatures of myth.

" King Priam's Treasure " was found in the Troy II level, that of the primitive Early Bronze Age, long before Priam's city of Troy VI or Troy VIIa in the prosperous and elaborate Mycenaean Age.

* Ventris and Chadwick: Gods found in Mycenaean Greece: a table drawn up from Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, Documents in Mycenaean Greek second edition ( Cambridge 1973 )

The word labyrinthos ( Mycenaean daburinthos < ref > da-pu < sub > 2 </ sub >- ri-to-yo po-ti-ni-ja ( KN Gg 702 ), daburinthoyo potnia meaning " mistress or lady of the Labyrinth ".</ ref >) may possibly show the same equivocation between initial d-and l-as is found in the variation of the early Hittite royal name Tabarna / Labarna ( where written t-may represent phonetic d -).

Linear B, found mainly in the palace archives at Knossos, Cydonia, Pylos, Thebes and Mycenae, disappeared with the fall of Mycenaean civilization.

:" To what extent one can and must differentiate between Minoan and Mycenaean religion is a question which has not yet found a conclusive answer "

Mycenaean religion certainly involved offerings and sacrifices to the deities, and some have speculated that their ceremonies involved human sacrifice based on textual evidence and bones found outside tombs.

A number of Mycenaean remains have been found in Epirus, especially at the most important ancient religious sites in the region, the Necromanteion ( Oracle of the Dead ) on the Acheron river, and the Oracle of Zeus at Dodona.

He continued Schliemann's concept of Mycenaean civilization but soon found that he needed to distinguish another civilization, the Minoan.

Linear B tablets found by Blegen clearly demonstrate that the site itself was called Pylos ( Mycenaean Greek Pulos, Linear B Pu-ro ) by its Mycenaean inhabitants.

The earliest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek ka-da-mi-ja, written in Linear B syllabic script in the list of flavourings on the " Spice " tablets found among palace archives in the House of the Sphinxes in Mycenae.

At Medinet Habu the corselet appears similar to that worn by the Philistines and is similar, though not identical, to that found in tomb 12 at Dendra where Mycenaean IIB-IIIA pottery dates it to the second half of the fifteenth century BCE.

The earliest attested form of the name is Mycenaean Greek di-wo-nu-so, written in Linear B syllabic script, presumably for / Diwo ( h ) nūsos /, found on two tablets at Mycenaean Pylos and dated to the 12th or 13th century BC.

Since an Oriental inscribed cylindrical seal found at the palace can be dated 14th-13th centuries BC, the myth of Semele must be Mycenaean or earlier in origin.

Heracles, the hero whose exploits always celebrate the new Olympian order over the old traditions, came to Thebes, one of the ancient Mycenaean cities of Greece, and found that the Greeks were paying tribute of 100 cattle ( a hecatomb ) each year to Erginus, king of the Minyans.

During the Acropolis excavations in Athens, which terminated in 1888, many potsherds of the Mycenaean style were found ; but Olympia had yielded either none, or such as had not been recognized before being thrown away, and the temple site at Delphi produced nothing distinctively Aegean.

After about 1500 BCE, beehive tombs became more widespread and are found in every part of the Mycenaean heartland.

The antiquities found were of three main periods, all preceding the Mycenaean age of Greece.