Mycenae : Greek city in Argolis, six miles from Argos & nine from the sea: one of the chief centres of the Aegean world in later 2nd millennium BC (see Agamemnon)
... by night and fled to Troy, where their wedding was celebrated. As soon as Menelaus heard of this in Crete, he sailed away from Crete and went straight to his brother Agamemnon who was the ruler of Mycenae. The two brothers decided to raise all the kings and heroes of Greece in a campaign. It was felt that the question was that of honour and that the ravisher of Helen must be punished. It was not easy... Agamemnon to sacrifice his elder daughter, beautiful Iphigenia, but Agamemnon refused.The troops, however, revolted, and so Odysseus prepared a plan, according to which a message was sent to the Palace at Mycenae. The message was that Iphigenia should go over to Aulis with her mother, Clytemnestra (who was the sister of Helen), where Iphigenia could be married to Achilles. Tempted by this message, the mother... ed, and some of them were stranded on foreign shores and founded Greek colonies in Asia, the Aegean and in Italy. Menelaus returned to Sparta along with Helen as his queen. When Agamemnon reached Mycenae he clasped his land and kissed it. But during his long absence, his wife, Clytaemnestra, had taken his cousin Aegisthus for king; and when Agamemnon entered the Palace, they killed him. The ...
... have emerged on mainland Greece about 1600 B.C. This came to be known as the Mycenaean civilisation. Feudal1 warrior leaders ruled their districts from hilltop fortresses, the principal fort being Mycenae itself. Minoan Crete exercised a strong influence in these early times; but, as Mycenaean Greece gradually acquired knowledge of the sea, power shifted in its favor. Feared as warriors, large mercenary... Rhodes, and Cyprus were annexed, and vigorous trade was established throughout the Mediterranean, even with the tribes of north and west Europe. Weakened by internal strife and wars in Asia Minor, Mycenae was overrun by invaders from central Asia toward the end of the 12th century B.C. After the Mycenaean period, Greece was invaded by IndoEuropean tribes from the north. The distribution of peoples ...
... voices. Earth in her fibres remembers, the breezes are stored with our echoes. Over the stone-hewn steps for their limpid orient waters Joyous they leaned and they knew not yet of the wells of Mycenae, Drew not yet from Eurotas the jar for an alien master, Mixed not Peneus yet with their tears. From the clasp of the current Now in their groups they arose and dispersed through the streets and... Ripen the hour of your stroke, while your words drip sweeter than honey. Sure am I, friends, you will turn from death at my voice, you will hear me! Some day yet I shall gaze on the ruins of haughty Mycenae. Is this not better than Ilion cast to the sword of her haters, Is this not happier than Troya captured and wretchedly burning, Time to await in his stride when the southern and northern Achaians... my tresses! Woe, thrice woe to him who shall ravish and him who shall cherish! Woe for the ships that shall bound too swift o'er the azure Aegean! Woe for thy splendid shambles of hell, O Argive Mycenae! Woe for the evil spouse and the house accursèd of Atreus!" So with her voice of the swan she clanged out doom on the peoples, Over the palace of Priam and over the armèd nation Marching resolved ...
... to have emerged on mainland Greece about 1600 BC. This came to be known as the Mycenaean civilisation. Feudal warrior leaders ruled their districts from hilltop fortresses, the principal fort being Mycenae itself. Minoan Crete exercised a strong influence in these early times; but, as Mycenaean Greece gradually acquired knowledge of the sea, power shifted in its favor. Feared as warriors, large mercenary... Rhodes, and Cyprus were annexed, and vigorous trade was established throughout the Mediterranean, even with the tribes of north and west Europe. Weakened by internal strife and wars in Asia Minor, Mycenae was overrun by invaders from central Asia toward the end of the 12th century BC. After the Mycenaean period, Greece was invaded by Indo-European tribes from the north. The distribution of peoples ...
... Aetna: Mount Etna, an active volcano in northeast Sicily, beneath which the giant Enceladus was said to be buried. Agamemnon: eldest son of Atreus and brother of Menelas King of Mycenae and Argos. Agamemnon was the commander in chief of the Greek forces against Troy. On his return to Greece, he was murdered by his wife Clymnestra and her paramour Aegisthus; his death was avenged... Menelaus: Younger brother of Agamemnon and husband of Helen. He was the king of Sparta, succeeding Tyndareus, Helen's foster-father, to the throne, and led the Spartan contingent against Troy. Mycenae: City in the northeast corner of the plain of Argos, ruled by Agamemnon. It was one of the chief centers of the Aegean world in the latter part of the second millennium BC. Myrmidons: A ...
... There is perfect justification for us to argue from the Harappān wheel-sign to a Harappān chariot running on wheels with six spokes. Actually it seems we do not have to wait on a proof from Mycenae. Our spoked wheels do not invariably occur in isolated suggestiveness: they are also found in association with a sign that should make it perfectly evident that these representations are the wheels ...
... beautiful wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta, by Paris, prince of Troy. To avenge this deception the whole of the Achaean forces, under the commandership of Agamemnon, Menelaus' brother and king of Mycenae, had left for Troy. We are told in one of Aeschilus's play "Agamemnon” of the tragic story of Agamemnon's daughter, Iphigenia, who was to be sacrificed at Aulis, a place of strong winds and dangerous ...
... tread divine and bright with her more than with sunbeams. King Agamemnon she found and smiling on Sparta's levies Page 101 Mixed unseen with the far-glinting spears of the haughty Mycenae. Then to the Mighty who tranquil abode and august in his regions Zeus, while his gaze over many forms and high-seated godheads Passed like a swift-fleeing eagle over the peaks and ...
... for peace, but withdraws his vote in terrified retreat when Hera, his spouse, directs her speech upon him. She suggests that if Zeus will agree to the destruction of Troy she will allow him to raze Mycenae, Argos, and Sparta to the ground. The war is renewed; many a man falls pierced by arrow, lance, or sword, and "darkness enfolds his eyes." (V) The gods join in the merry slicing game; Ares, the awful ...
... Achelous: river in Phyrigia (Asia Minor), east of Troy. Aegean: sea between Greece and Asia Minor. Agamemnon: eldest son of Atreus and brother of Menelaus, King of Mycenae and Argos, Agamemnon was the commander in chief of the Greek forces against Troy. On his return to Greece, he was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her paramour Aegisthus; his death was avenged ...
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