Mycenaean civilization
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The Mycenaean civilization was a Late Bronze Age Greek culture known for its fortified palace centers, Linear B script, and role as the setting for many events later immortalized in Homeric epics.
Observed surface forms (10)
| Surface form | As subject | As object |
|---|---|---|
| Mycenaean Greece | 0 | 5 |
| Mycenaean Greeks | 0 | 2 |
| Achaean Greeks | 0 | 1 |
| Heroic Age | 0 | 1 |
| Late Helladic period | 0 | 1 |
| Mycenaean | 0 | 1 |
| Mycenaean architecture | 0 | 1 |
| Mycenaean era (mythic setting) | 0 | 1 |
| Mycenaean expansion | 0 | 1 |
| Mycenaeans | 0 | 1 |
Statements (70)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bronze Age civilization
→
ancient Greek civilization → archaeological culture → |
| archaeologicalPeriod |
Late Bronze Age
→
surface form:
Late Helladic
|
| associatedWithEvent | Trojan War tradition → |
| associatedWithWork |
Homer's Iliad
→
surface form:
Homer’s Iliad
Homer's Odyssey →
surface form:
Homer’s Odyssey
|
| capital |
Mycenae and Tiryns
→
surface form:
Mycenae
|
| chronologicalPhase |
Late Bronze Age
→
surface form:
Late Helladic I
Late Bronze Age →
surface form:
Late Helladic II
Aegean Bronze Age →
surface form:
Late Helladic III
|
| collapse | part of Late Bronze Age collapse → |
| culturalInfluenceOn |
Archaic Greece
→
Classical Greece → |
| economy |
agriculture
→
bronze metallurgy → palace-centered redistribution → textile production → |
| endTime | c. 1100 BCE → |
| follows | Minoan civilization → |
| hasDeity |
Athena
→
Dionysus → Hera → Hermes → Poseidon → Zeus → |
| hasRulerTitle |
lawagetas
→
wanax → |
| hasSite |
Gla
→
Iolkos → Knossos → Midea → Mycenae and Tiryns →
surface form:
Mycenae
Orchomenus →
surface form:
Orchomenos
Pylos → Thebes → Mycenae and Tiryns →
surface form:
Tiryns
|
| hasStructure | Lion Gate at Mycenae → |
| hasTomb | Treasury of Atreus → |
| knownFor |
Homeric epic tradition setting
→
early form of Greek language → elaborate gold grave goods → extensive trade networks → fortified palace centers → megaron-type palaces → militaristic society → palatial bureaucracy → shaft graves → tholos tombs → |
| language | Mycenaean Greek → |
| locatedIn |
Aegean Region
→
surface form:
Aegean region
Peloponnese → mainland Greece → |
| materialCulture |
Linear B inscriptions
→
surface form:
Linear B tablets
cyclopean masonry → inlaid bronze swords → stirrup jars → warrior kraters → |
| partOf |
Aegean Bronze Age
→
surface form:
Aegean civilizations
|
| politicalStructure | palace-based kingdoms → |
| religion | polytheism → |
| sharesDeitiesWith | later Greek religion → |
| startTime | c. 1600 BCE → |
| successor | Greek Dark Ages → |
| tradesWith |
Anatolia
→
Cyprus → Pharaonic Egypt →
surface form:
Egypt
Levant region →
surface form:
Levant
|
| usesScript | Linear B → |
| writingSystem | Linear B → |
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Mycenaeans
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Mycenaean Greeks
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Mycenaean Greece
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Mycenaean expansion
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Achaean Greeks
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Mycenaean
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Mycenaean Greece
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Mycenaean Greece
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Mycenaean Greeks
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Mycenaean architecture
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Heroic Age
this entity surface form:
Mycenaean Greece
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Late Helladic period
this entity surface form:
Mycenaean era (mythic setting)
this entity surface form:
Mycenaean Greece