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.

The north western coasts of Anatolia were inhabited by Greeks of the Achaean / Mycenaean culture from the 20th century BC, related to the Greeks of south eastern Europe and the Aegean.

Beginning with the Bronze Age Collapse at the end of the 2nd millennium BC, the west coast of Anatolia was settled by Ionian Greeks, usurping the related but earlier Mycenaean Greeks.

The second fight between Ajax and Hector occurs when the latter breaks into the Mycenaean camp, and fights with the Greeks among the ships.

Around this same time various immigrants, such as the Hittites in Anatolia and Mycenaean Greeks, started appearing around the peripheries of civilization.

This language has been dubbed Minoan and corresponds to a period in Cretan history prior to a series of invasions by Mycenaean Greeks around 1450 BC.

Unlike the ancient Minoan civilization, the Mycenaean Greeks emphasized the need for fortifications alongside natural defenses of mountainous terrain, such as the massive Cyclopean walls built at Mycenae during the last half of the 2nd millennium BC.

Many scholars believe that there is a historical core to the tale, though this may simply mean that the Homeric stories are a fusion of various tales of sieges and expeditions by Mycenaean Greeks during the Bronze Age.

Linear B, the writing system of the Mycenaean Greeks, has been deciphered while Linear A has yet to be deciphered.

While establishing the credibility of the Mycenaean Greeks as a historical power, these documents create as many problems as they solve.

In the Homeric epics, the Greeks of prehistory are viewed as the ancestors of the early classical civilization of Homer's own time, while the Mycenaean pantheon included many of the divinities ( e. g. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades ) attested in later Greek religion.

Mycenaean Greeks then colonized the area.

Miletus and some other cities founded earlier by non-Greeks received populations of Mycenaean Greeks probably under the name of Achaeans.

Mycenaean Greeks must have been among them.

Miletus was the first city attacked, where there had been some Mycenaean Greeks apparently under the rule of Cretans.

Mycenaean Greeks were undoubtedly inhabiting Cyprus from the late stage of the Bronze Age, while the island's Greek name is already attested from the 15th century B. C.

The first record of her name appears in the poems of Homer, but scholars assume that such myths invented or received by the Mycenaean Greeks made their way to Homer.

Literacy had been lost and Mycenaean script forgotten, but the Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet, modifying it to create the Greek alphabet.

The Phoenician name of the people recalls one of the Homeric names of the Greeks, Danaoi with the-m plural, whereas the Luwian name Hiyawa probably goes back to Hittite Ahhiyā ( wa ), which is, according to most interpretations, the " Achaean ", or Mycenaean Greek, settlement in Asia Minor.

The abandoning population were probably Mycenaean Greeks, who had earlier occupied the city-state, and were using Linear B as its administrative script, as opposed to Linear A, the previous administrative script.

In this theory, the Mycenaean Greeks would have held court in this room, as they came to power in Knossos at about 1450.

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.

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

During the era between the Mycenaean times and the Roman Empire, the javelin was a commonly used offensive weapon.

Linear A is one of two scripts used in ancient Crete before Mycenaean Greek Linear B ; Cretan hieroglyphic is the second script.

In Minoan times, before the Mycenaean Greek dominion, Linear A was the official script for the palaces and religious activities, and hieroglyphs were mainly used on seals.

In 1952, Michael Ventris discovered that Linear B was being used to write the early form of Greek known as Mycenaean.

Linear B is a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of Greek.

Linear B, a script used in the ancient Aegean, was deciphered in 1952 by Michael Ventris, who demonstrated that it recorded an early form of Greek, now known as Mycenaean Greek.

In Mycenaean Greek, a-de ending is used to denote an allative, when it is not being used as an enclitic.

The ruins of a crude stone fortress on nearby Sphacteria Island, apparently of Mycenaean origin, were used by the Spartans during the Peloponnesian War.

After the " Dark Age ", when Hellenes looked with awe at the vast dressed blocks, known as Cyclopean structures, which had been used in Mycenaean masonry ( at sites such as Mycenae and Tiryns or on Cyprus ), they concluded that only the Cyclopes had the combination of skill and strength to build in such a monumental manner.

The sign was used throughout the Mycenaean world as an apotropaic symbol: its presence on an object would prevent it from being " killed ".

The sarcophagus was used during the Mycenaean occupation of Crete ( 1400 BC ).

Three springs, one in the western side of the large courtyard, where could be accessed by a secret entrance, and two at the end of north side of the wall, to which the access could be done by two tunnels which were opened in the wall, similar to those that used as shelters, are witness for the care which was taken here, as in other Mycenaean acropolises, to the basic problem of water-at a siege time.

1200 BC – 800 BC ) are terms which have regularly been used to refer to the period of Greek history from the presumed Dorian invasion and end of the Mycenaean Palatial civilization around 1200 BC, to the first signs of the Greek poleis in the 9th century BC.

In Greece the Linear B writing of the Greek language used by Mycenaean bureaucrats ceased.

Not all inscribed texts are public, however: in Mycenaean Greece the deciphered texts of " Linear B " were revealed to be largely used for economic and administrative record keeping.

The presence of numbers of these figurines on sites where worship took place in the Archaic and Classical periods ( c 200 below the sanctuary of Athena at Delphi, others at the temple of Aphaia on Aegina, at the sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas above Epidauros and at Amyklae near Sparta, for example ), suggests both that many were indeed religious in nature, perhaps as votives, but also that later places of worship may well have first been used in the Mycenaean period.

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

Lerna was used as a cemetery during the Mycenaean age, but was abandoned about 1250 BCE.

The first known script for writing Greek was the Linear B syllabary, used for the archaic Mycenaean dialect.

After the fall of the Mycenaean civilization during the Bronze Age collapse, there was a period of about five hundred years when writing was either not used or nothing has survived to the present day.