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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Ancient Argos, Ancient Phliasians, Ancient Troezen, Epidaurus, Geography of ancient Argolis, Mycenae, Mycenaean archaeological sites in Argolis, Mythology of Argolis, Heinrich Schliemann, Amphitryon, Inachus, Oresteia, Triopas, Perseus, Achaean League, Grave Circle A, Mycenae, Tiryns, Pyramid of Hellinikon, Lerna, Lion Gate, Timon of Phlius, Clytemnestra, Nemean Games, Nestor's Cup, Kalaureia, Argus Panoptes, Electra, Battle of Nemea, Myndus, Mask of Agamemnon, Arkadiko Bridge, Ermioni, Treasury of Atreus, Timotheus, Pamphile of Epidaurus, Isyllus, Temple of Asklepios at Epidauros, Asclepiades of Phlius, Dendra, Battle of the 300 Champions, Kyriakos Pittakis, Pratinas, Asine, Echecrates, Midea, Axiothea of Phlius, Telesarchus, Lasus of Hermione, Aras, Cleonae, Thrasymedes, Silver Siege Rhyton, Phanto of Phlius, Larissa, Polemocrates. Excerpt: Mycenae (Greek Myk nai or Myk n ) is an archaeological site in Greece, located about 90 km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese. Argos is 11 km to the south; Corinth, 48 km to the north. From the hill on which the palace was located one can see across the Argolid to the Saronic Gulf. In the second millennium BC Mycenae was one of the major centres of Greek civilization, a military stronghold which dominated much of southern Greece. The period of Greek history from about 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is called Mycenaean in reference to Mycenae. The etymology of Mycenae most probably derives from the Greek word " " (myc s) meaning mushroom, and also any knobbed mushroom-shaped body. Pausanias describes how Megapenthes founded the city and named it from the cap myc s from the sheath of his sword. Botanical words such as Mycena, Mycelium, Mycetozoa etc., also derive from " ." The reconstructed Mycenaean Greek name of the site is Muk nai, which has the form of a...
