2.1 - Key sites

• When was the Mycenean Age?

  1600 -1150 BC
• What were the different periods of the Mycenean Age?

  Early Period (1600 - 1400Bc)

  Palatial Period (1400 - 1250Bc)

  Later Period (1250 - 1150Bc)
• What is Tyrins famous for?

  • walls
  • palace
  • throne room
  • frescoes
• What is the megaron?


  the central hall in a mycenean palace
• What are some features of Mycene?

  Cyclopean Walls

  Lion Gate
• Cyclopean

  • Their walls had sally ports
  • the walls were 5.5 - 7.5 m thick
  • The walls were made of huge limestone blocks pilled onto eachother
  • They filled the gaps with small pieces of limestone
• Lions Gate

  • Main entrance to the city
  • made of conglomerate
  • holes to lock gates
  • could defend city from it as you could throw rocks from it.
• What are some features about the land around mycene?

  • on a hill (40 - 50 m above plains)
  • surrounded by 3 ravines
  • spring was less than 400m away
  • the perimeter was 900m
  • believed that Perseus founded the city
• KEy features about Tyrins:

  • 10 miles from Mycene
  • strong defense walls 8m high and 13m thick
  • believed to be older than mycene
  • founded by Proitos ?
• Key features about Pylos:

  • Supposed to be the home of Nestor
  • lots of well preserved palaces
  • huge megaron and smaller one
  • 13 Bc
• Troy

  • the city was built many times over several year
  • supposedly the same site as the famous Trojan war
• Akrotiri

  • Island of Santorini
  • Famous for wall paintings
  • Having paintings for ships, boxers, flowers, birds, priests & worshipers
• Grave Circle B

  • 200m outside city walls
  • 24 graves from 17th - 16th century
  • 35 bodies ----> thought to be for the royal family
• Grave circle A

  • Thought to be a royal burial site
  • contained 6 shaft graves
  • elaborately carved stelai
  • walls are extended
• Tomb of Clytemnestra & Aegisthus and Treasury of Athens

  • Built in the 14th Bc
  • Tholos tombs
  • The tomb is 13m in diameter and 3m in height
  • the content of the Grave was robbed in ancient times
• WHo excavated troy?


  Heinrich Schliemann