The most impressive work is that of the Dendra panoply, a complete suit of Mycenaean armor and the oldest form of metal armor.

The oldest known western armor is the Dendra panoply, dating from the Mycenaean Era around 1400 B. C.

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.

No actual body-armour, except such as was ceremonial and buried with the dead, like the gold breastplates in the circle-graves at Mycenae or the full length body armour from Dendra.

Princess Marie Louise of Orléans ( 1662 – 1689 ) | Maria Luisa, Queen of Spain lying in state, by Sebastián Muñoz, 1689, displays the full panoply of lying in state

They were dressed in the finest Greek panoply topped off with a Corinthian helmet.

It is unclear whether he meant only shields and armor or offensive weapons as well, though a general reading suggests he meant the whole panoply of arms and armour, and even tactical organization.

These infantrymen would have been equipped as hoplites with the traditional hoplite panoply consisting of a thrusting spear ( doru ), bronze-faced hoplon shield and body armour.

The Homeric " long-haired Achaeans " would have been a part of the Mycenaean civilization that dominated Greece from ca.

* Mycenaean Greece

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Among the most exciting recent archaeological discoveries in Greece is the recognition that the sanctuary site near the modern village of Kalapodi is not only the site of the oracle of Apollon at Abai but that it was in constant use for cult practices from early Mycenaean times to the Roman period.

* Mycenaean Greece

The Arkadiko Bridge is one of four Mycenaean corbel arch bridges part of a former network of roads, designed to accommodate chariots, between Tiryns to Epidauros in the Peloponnese, in Greece.

Though details of genealogy differ from one ancient author to another, the cultural significance of the mythic theme, that the descendants of Heracles, exiled after his death, returned after some generations in order to reclaim land that their ancestors had held in Mycenaean Greece, was to assert the primal legitimacy of a traditional ruling clan that traced its origin, thus its legitimacy, to Heracles.

* 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 )

Analysis of the lexical items of Mycenaean Greek, an early form of Greek, raised the issue of whether Greek had been formed within Greece from Indo-European elements brought in by migrants or invaders, mixed with elements of indigenous languages.

Category: Mycenaean archaeological sites in central Greece

Among other findings there are wineries where fermented wine was produced, as well as loom weights resembling those of Mycenaean sites in Greece.

Modern archaeology has also suggested early cultural links with the Mycenaean world in Greece.

The findings of archaeological excavations and research in Somalia show that this ancient civilization had had an ancient writing system that remains undeciphered and enjoyed a lucrative trading relationship with Ancient Egypt and Mycenaean Greece since at least the second millennium BC, which supports the view of Somalia being the ancient Kingdom of Punt.

Records of slavery in Ancient Greece go as far back as Mycenaean Greece.

Syracuse and its surrounding area have been inhabited since ancient times, as shown by the findings in the villages of Stentinello, Ognina, Plemmirio, Matrensa, Cozzo Pantano and Thapsos, which already had a relationship with Mycenaean Greece.

Then Heinrich Schliemann popularized his excavations at Hissarlik, which he and others believed to be Troy, and of the Mycenaean cities of Greece.

Much of the Mycenaean religion survived into classical Greece in their pantheon of Greek deities, but it is not known to what extent Greek religious belief is Mycenaean, nor how much is a product of the Greek Dark Ages or later.

Over the 4th century Macedon became more politically involved with the south-central city-states of Ancient Greece, but it also retained more archaic features like the palace-culture, first at Aegae ( modern Vergina ) then at Pella, resembling Mycenaean culture more than classic Hellenic city-states, and other archaic customs, like Philip's multiple wives in addition to his Epirote queen Olympias, mother of Alexander.

There were at least two migrations, the first of the Ionians and Aeolians which resulted in Mycenaean Greece by the 16th century BC, and the second, the Dorian invasion, around the 11th century BC, displacing the Arcadocypriot dialects which descended from the Mycenaean period.

Helladic period | Mycenaean sites in the Epirus ( region ) | region of Epirus.

File: NAMA Mycènes bouclier 1. jpg | Wall painting depicting a Mycenaean Greek " figure eight " shield with a suspension strap at the middle, 15th century BC, National Archaeological Museum, Athens-The faces of figure eight shields were quite convex.

Necklace with gold beads and carnelian beads, Cyprus | Cypriot artwork with Helladic period | Mycenaean inspiration, ca.

The Hagia Triada Mycenaean Greece | Mycenaean sarcophagus, 14th century BCE, depicting the earliest lyre with seven strings, held by a man with long robe, third from the left.

Reconstruction of Mycenaean Greece | Mycenaean swords, the bottom one being a makhaira-type sword.

Greek Helladic period | Mycenaean armor, circa 1400 B. C.

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.

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.