Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to Mycenae or its inhabitants.
- adj. Of, relating to, or being the Aegean civilization that spread its influence from Mycenae to many parts of the Mediterranean region from about 1580 to 1120 B.C.
- adj. Of, relating to, or being the archaic dialect of Greek written in the Linear B script.
- n. A native or inhabitant of Mycenae.
- n. Mycenaean Greek.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to ancient Mycenæ, in Greece, or to the civilization represented by its remains. A series of excavations, beginning with those of Schliemann at Hissarlik (ancient Troy) in 1873, and continued by those of Evans in Crete (1893–1905) have revealed numerous remains of the first Hellenic civilization, which may have begun as early as 2000 b. c., and which continued until it was obliterated by the Doric invasion, about 1200 b. c. These remains show so many points of resemblance to descriptions in the Homeric poems that it is usually assumed that they belong to the same civilization as that which is the subject of the Iliad and Odyssey. Until quite recently the most typical and important of these relics were those found at Mycenæ, the seat of the Achean kings in the Peloponnesus, first excavated by Schliemann in 1876; and this entire class of monuments, metal-work, pottery, gems, etc., has hence taken the name Mycenæan. Within a few years, however, investigation has made it probable that the chief seat of this early civilization was the island of Crete. See the extract.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or relating to ancient Mycenae or its inhabitants.
- adj. Of or relating to the Mycenaean civilization, the early Greek civilization that spread its influence from Mycenae to many parts of the Mediterranean region and Central Europe from about 2800 to 1100 BCE, divided into three periods: Early Helladic (c. 2800–2000 B.C.E), Middle Helladic (c. 2000–1500 B.C.E), and Late Helladic (c. 1500–1100 B.C.E)
- adj. Of or relating to the Ancient Greek dialect written in the Linear B syllabary.
- n. A native or inhabitant of Mycenae.
- n. Mycenaean Greek
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or characteristic of ancient Mycenae or its inhabitants
Etymologies
- From Mycenae + -an. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Katharine Beutner’s first novel, Alcestis, is set in Mycenaean Greece.”
“Whole classes of artifacts, such as a group of "Mycenaean" gold plates said to be from Phoenicia, have no certain authentic parallels.”
“For it seems clear that the "Mycenaean" civilization developed little which can be called artistic in the highest sense of that term.”
“Mycenaean" civilization was widely extended over the Greek islands and the eastern portions of continental Greece in the second millennium before our era.”
“On the other hand, the dress and the shields of the men engaged in the lion-hunt are identical with those on a number of other "Mycenaean" articles -- gems, statuettes, etc. -- which it is difficult to regard as all of foreign importation.”
“The greatest triumph of the goldsmith's art in the "Mycenaean" period does not come from Mycenae.”
“Indeed, there are traces enough of change even in the objects and art discovered in the bloom-time, as represented by the Mycenaean acropolis itself and by other "Mycenaean" sites.”
“We may find "Mycenaean" corslets and greaves, but they are not in cremation burials.”
“[Footnote: For this peculiar kind of Mycenaean axe with holes in the blade, see the design of a bronze example from Vaphio in Tsountas and Manatt,”
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