mycenae in English

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an ancient city in Greece, situated near the coast in the northeastern Peloponnese, the center of the late Bronze Age Mycenaean civilization. The capital of King Agamemnon, it was at its most prosperous circa 1400–1200 bc ; systematic excavation of the site began in 1840.

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1. Myths of the Argive Plain Cities: Mycenae, Tiryns, Argos Argive Plain Mycenaean Age: Mycenae Tiryns Classical

2. Agamemnon was the King of Mycenae and was born of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope

3. 6628: Entrance of the Treasury of Atreus at Mycenae.

4. Agamemnon, in Greek legend, king of Mycenae or Argos

5. Atreus definition is - a king of Mycenae and father of Agamemnon and Menelaus.

6. Atreus was the elder brother of Thyestes and was the king of Mycenae

7. Atreus, in Greek legend, the son of Pelops of Mycenae and his wife, Hippodamia

8. Aegisthus helps Clytemnestra in order to rule the kingdom of Mycenae alongside with Clytemnestra

9. Agamemnon definition, a king of Mycenae, a son of Atreus and brother of Menelaus

10. Atreus was an ancient Greek King of Mycenae who bore two sons, King Agamemnon and King Menelaus

11. What does Atreus mean? A king of Mycenae, brother of Thyestes and father of Agamemnon and Menelaus

12. Agamemnon definition is - a king of Mycenae and leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War.

13. The best examples of the Bronze Age Greece palace are seen in the excavations at Mycenae, Tiryns and Pylos.

14. Constructing a Legendary Past: Possible Archaising Elements in the Funerary Landscape of Late Bronze Age Mycenae 261 Bryan E

15. Atreus was murdered by Aegisthus, who took possession of the throne of Mycenae and ruled jointly with his father Thyestes

16. Agamemnon and Iphigenia Agamemnon was the King of Mycenae [see Argos on map] and brother to Menelaus, the King of Sparta []

17. Genealogy for Alcaeus of Mycenae (deceased) family tree on Geni, with over 200 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives

18. Atreus was murdered by Aegisthus, who took possession of the throne of Mycenae and ruled jointly with his father Thyestes.

19. Aegisthus CHORUS OF WOMEN OF MYCENAE MUTE PERSONS PYLADES, son of Strophius, King of Phocis, and friend of Orestes A HANDMAID OF CLYTEMNESTRA TWO ATTENDANTS OF ORESTES: As background to the play, King Agamemnon of Mycenae (or Argos in some versions of the myth) had returned from the Trojan War with his new concubine, Cassandra.

20. Argives The inhabitants of Argos (especially of Sparta and Mycenae ) in the Peloponnese, but extended to cover all the Greeks who sailed for Troy

21. Later, Agamemnon, married to Spartan princess Clytemnestra, returned to Mycenae, defeated Aegisthus, and became king.1 As Agamemnon sailed to war on Troy, after

22. King Agamemnon, more commonly known as Agamemnon (Ancient Greek: Ἀγαμέμνων; Modern Greek: Αγαμέμνονας, "very steadfast"), was the king of Mycenae and Argos in Southern Greece

23. 1 History 1.1 Early years 1.2 Trojan War 2 Links and References 2.1 Discover and Discuss 2.2 Footnotes Aegisthus murdered Atreus, king of Mycenae, and supplanted him as king

24. Aegisthus and Thyestes thereafter ruled over Mycenae jointly, exiling Atreus' sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus to Sparta, where King Tyndareus gave the pair his daughters, Clytemnestra and Helen, to take as wives.

25. In Greek mythology, Atreus (Ἀτρεύς) was a king of Mycenae, the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus.Collectively, his descendants are known as Atreidai or Atreidae

26. Aegisthus - (Greek mythology) the seducer of Clytemnestra and murderer of Agamemnon who usurped the throne of Mycenae until Agamemnon's son Orestes returned home and killed him Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks

27. In Greek mythology, Atreus (Ancient Greek: Ἀτρεύς) was a king of Mycenae, the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. Collectively, his descendants are known as Atreidai or Atreidae.

28. Agamemnon (pronounced a-ga-mem'-non), was the leading king of the Greek forces in the Trojan War.He became king of Mycenae by driving out his uncle, Thyestes, with the help of King Tyndareus of Sparta

29. Thyestes, having a long – time rivalry with his brother and king of Mycenae, Atreus, was advised by an oracle to have a son with his own daughter, Pelopia, who would then kill his brother.Thus, Aegisthus was born

30. Atreus Atreus was a king of Mycenae in Greek mythology, son of Pelops and Hippodamia. He was married to Aerope and fathered a girl, Anaxibia, and two boys, Agamemnon and Menelaus, two of the protagonists of the Trojan War

31. The Classical Greeks believed that, since the walls of ancient Mycenae (which was already in ruins in the Classical Era) was so magnificent, entirely made out of huge boulders, it was probably the Cyclopean giants that helped the Mycenaeans built the walls.

32. Agamemnon was the king of Mycenae and leader of the Greek army in the Trojan War of Homer's Illiad.He is presented as a great warrior but selfish ruler, famously upsetting his invincible champion Achilles and so prolonging the war and suffering of his men

33. Aegisthus is Clytemnestra ’s second husband and the king of Mycenae in Electra.After Agamemnon sacrificed his and Clytemnestra’s daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis, Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon as revenge on Clytemnestra’s behalf.Clytemnestra and Aegisthus were already having an affair while Agamemnon was away fighting the Trojan War, and Electra implies that Clytemnestra and

34. Passage"); Mycenae is "rich in gold" (H 179); Achaian Argos is "the richest of lands" (I 141); in sandy Pylos are "men abound-ing in flocks and kine" (I 154); in that dear home-land of Achilles "goodly flocks are to be had for the harrying" and "chestnut horses," too (I …