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Mycenae

noun
1.
An ancient city is southern Greece; center of the Mycenaean civilization during the late Bronze Age.



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"Mycenae" Quotes from Famous Books



... extreme antiquity, and free from any appearance of imitating structures of timber, mark the sites of the oldest cities of Greece, Mycenae and Orchomenos for example, the most ancient being Pelasgic city walls of unwrought stone (Fig. 51). The so-called Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae, a circular underground chamber 48 ft. 6 in. in diameter, and with a pointed vault, is a well-known specimen of more regular yet archaic building. ...
— Architecture - Classic and Early Christian • Thomas Roger Smith
... earlier we find traces of man, in implements, such as are used by the ruder savages at the present day. Later, the remains of the palaeolithic and neolithic conditions take us gradually from the savage state to the civilizations of Egypt and of Mycenae; though the true chronological order of the remains actually ...
— Collected Essays, Volume V - Science and Christian Tradition: Essays • T. H. Huxley


Words linked to "Mycenae" :   Mycenaean, urban center, Ellas, Greece, city, metropolis, Hellenic Republic


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