Mycenae

English Alternative forms en Mycenæ Etymology From en la Mycenae, en grc Μυκῆναι, the name of the Ancient Greek city, from grc Μυκήνη, a nymph in Greek mythology who lived around Mycenae. en Mykines. Two traditional etymologies exist: According to Pausanias, Perseus, the legendary founder of the city, named it either after the cap of the sheath of his sword or after a mushroom he had plucked on the site (either way, the term would derive from Ancient Greek grc μύκης). Homer connected the name to the abovementioned Mycene (mythology) Mycene (or Mykene), daughter of Inachus, first King of Argos (Odyssey, 2.120). Homer was not alone in identifying Inachus as a river god, and thus Mycene as a nymph. Pronunciation en /maɪˈsiːniː/ mīsēʹnē Proper noun An ancient Greek city in the NE Peloponnesus on the plain of Argos, inhabited since about 4000 1958, Alan John Bayard Wace, Elizabeth Bayard French, The Mycenae Tablets II, American Philosophical Society, page 1, The excavators of Mycenae added in 1953 and 1954 important new materials to the small but excellent archives of Mycenae. 1992 [Routledge], Richard Tomlinson (academic) Richard Tomlinson, From Mycenae to Constantinople, 2003, Taylor & Francis e-Library, page 31, In 479 BC the citizen army of Mycenae marched to Plataea in Boeotia to join the other mainland Greek cities in inflicting the final defeat which terminated Xerxes' invasion of Greece. en 2000 Maureen Joan Alden Well Built Mycenae Oxbow Books https://books.google.com.au/books?id=qecrAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Mycenae%22&dq=%22Mycenae%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj6nNTUhLf7AhV89DgGHbJwAVs4ZBDoAXoECEAQAg 1 The Prehistoric Cemetery at Mycenae provides our most coherent glimpse of the Middle Hellenic period at Mycenae. Related terms en Mycenaean en Mycenaean civilization Translations ancient Greek city Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 邁錫尼 Màixīní Czech: cs Mykény f-p Esperanto: eo Mikeno, eo Miceno French: fr Mycènes f Galician: gl Micenas German: de Mykene n, de Mykenä n Greek: el Μυκήνες f-p Ancient Greek: grc Μυκῆναι f-p Hawaiian: haw Mukānai Hindi: hi मुकेने Hungarian: hu Mükéné Irish: ga Micéiné f, ga Mycenae Italian: it Micene m Japanese: ja ミケーネ Mikēne, ja ミュケーナイ Myukēnai Lithuanian: lt Mikėnai m-p Macedonian: mk Мике́на f Polish: pl Mykeny nv-p Portuguese: pt Micenas f Russian: ru Мике́ны f-p Slovene: sl Mikene f-p Spanish: es Micenas f Swedish: sv Mykene n Turkish: tr Miken en Former polities Ancient settlements Ancient Greece Latin Alternative forms la Mycēna la Mycēnē Etymology la Mycēnae :bor grc:Μυκῆναι + 1 Pronunciation Mycēnae Proper noun Mycēnae<1.loc> f A city of Argolis and dwelling of the mythical king Agamemnon Declension Mycēnae<1.loc> Derived terms la Mycēnensis Related terms la Mycēnaeus la Mycēnis Descendants en Mycenae 1 fr Mycènes it Micene Further reading la Cities Greece