Mycenae_(Crete)

Mycenae (Crete)

Mycenae (Crete)

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Mycenae or Mykenai (Ancient Greek: Μυκῆναι) was a town of ancient Crete, the foundation of which was attributed by an historian of the Augustan age to Agamemnon.[1] Jean Hardouin proposed to read Mycenae for Myrina, which is mentioned as a city of Crete in the text of Pliny the Elder.[2]

Its site is tentatively located near the modern Selli, Kastelli.[3][4] The editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World also tentatively accept the association of Mycenae with Pliny's Myrina.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Vell. Paterc. 1.1
  2. [2]
    ad Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.12.
  3. [3]
    Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  4. [4]
    Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 60, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Mycenae". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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