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.

The earliest attested term referring to Lacedaemon is the Mycenaean Greek ra-ke-da-mi-ni-jo, " Lacedaimonian ", written in Linear B syllabic script and transliterated as Λακεδαιμόνιος ( Lakedaimonios ) in the Greek alphabet.

Moreover, the location of the sites is an indication that the Pelasgian inhabitants sought to " ethnically " ( a fluid term ) and economically distinguish themselves from the Mycenaean Greeks who controlled the Skourta Plain.

One scholar has argued that the Mycenaean Greek term ru-wa-ni-jo, attested in Linear B syllabic script refers to the same area.

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 written and safely dated literal references to the term " Mother Earth " occur in Mycenaean Greek ma-ka ( transliterated as ma-ga ), " Mother Gaia ", written in Linear B syllabic script ( 13th / 12th cent.

' Cyclopean ', the term normally applied to the masonry style characteristic of Mycenaean fortification systems, describes walls built of huge, unworked limestone boulders which are roughly fitted together.

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 -).

The earliest attested terms referring to wine are the Mycenaean Greek me-tu-wo ne-wo (), meaning " the month of new wine " or " festival of the new wine ", and wo-no-wa-ti-si, meaning " wine garden ", written in Linear B inscriptions.

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.

The word labyrinthos ( Mycenaean daburinthos < ref > da-pu < sub > 2 </ sub >- ri-to-yo ( KN Gg 702 ), daburinthoyo potnia meaning " Lady of the Labyrinth ".</ ref >) is probably connected with the word labrys.

The Greek word Pharmakeia () derives from ( pharmakon ), meaning " drug " or " medicine " ( the earliest form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek pa-ma-ko, attested in Linear B syllabic script ).

The word Potnia, meaning mistress or lady, was a Mycenaean word inherited by Classical Greek, with the same meaning, which has an exact parallel in Sanskrit.

The earliest attested form of the word " ῥίον " ( rhion ) is the Mycenaean Greek ri-jo-no, from ri-jo, meaning " cape ", written in Linear B syllabic script.

** Basileus, from Mycenaean Greek meaning " chieftain ", later used for the Roman emperors of the Byzantine period.

* íkkos ( Attic híppos, horse ) ( Mycenaean i-qo )

The word comes from Latin equus, " horse ", cognate with Greek " ἵππος " ( hippos ), Ionic " ἴκκος " ( ikkos ), " horse " ( the earliest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek i-qo, written in Linear B syllabic script ).

With written attestations appearing since the Bronze Age, in the form of the Anatolian languages and Mycenaean Greek, the Indo-European family is significant to the field of historical linguistics as possessing the longest recorded history after the Afroasiatic family.

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 earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek  po-ro-te-u, written in Linear B syllabic script.

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.

Nevertheless, the earliest attested form of the second stem, turos (" cheese "), is the Mycenaean Greek tu-ro, written in Linear B syllabic script.

The name lepton comes from the Greek " λεπτόν " ( lepton ), neuter of " λεπτός " ( leptos ), " fine, small, thin " and the earliest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek re-po-to, written in Linear B syllabic script.

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.

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.

The first written references to elm occur in the Linear B lists of military equipment at Knossos in the Mycenaean Period.

The earliest form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek e-re-u-ti-ja, written in Linear b syllabic script.

The results of the excavations indicate that the Early Iron Age inhabitants of Lemnos could be a remnant of a Mycenaean population and, in addition, the earliest attested refer to Lemnos is the Mycenaean Greek ra-mi-ni-ja, " Lemnian woman ", written in Linear B syllabic script.