Find more facts and information on our topic page about
Mycenae
Mycena
Mycena (family Tricholomataceae) A genus of
fungi in which the
fruit bodies are small and delicate, with a conical or bell-shaped cap and a long, slender, central
stipe.
Spores are smooth and colourless. There are many species, found on the ground, on wood, on plant debris, etc.
Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.
|
From fabled city to tourist treasure. (Greetings from Mycenae).(ancient civilization in Greece)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; MYCENAE'S SPLENDOR HAS FASCINATED COUNTLESS GENERATIONS...Tsountas, made more amazing finds. High atop Mycenae's acropolis, Tsountas discovered a series...the ground plan for the actual palace of Mycenae's rulers. Tsountas also uncovered a...
|
 "The Economist (US)")
|
Mycenae's miracle; Ancient Greece.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 3/11/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...and a bloody ancient family feud make Mycenae, a fortified hill in the Peloponnese...in this succinct account of Bronze Age Mycenae and its curious hold on the imagination...businessman who turned his attention to Mycenae in 1876 after digging up Troy, was a...
|
|
|
Mycenae `rich in gold'.
Magazine article from: Calliope; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...DESCRIBE the great palace of Agamemnon at Mycenae (my SEE nee). For archaeologist Heinrich...magnificent treasures might lie hidden beneath Mycenae's great walls and dusty landscape...not all ancient graves in and around Mycenae were filled with treasures. In fact...
|
|
HEAVEN ON EARTH MYCENAE - GREECE WHO Actor Robert Hardy WHY 'You would be hard pressed to find somewhere more historic'
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 8/26/2007; ; 379 words
; ...pressed to find somewhere more historic than Mycenae in the Peloponnese. Legend has it that...preserved, which leads to the little town of Mycenae itself. If you go, be sure to hire a...astonishing part of the world, and a visit to Mycenae and the surrounding area lets you trace...
|
|
The Helleno-British excavations within the Citadel at Mycenae, 159-1969; fascicule, 13: The Service areas of the cult centre. (CD-ROMs included).(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2008; 515 words
; ...British excavations within the Citadel at Mycenae, 159-1969; fascicule, 13: The Service...44 pages $52.00 Paperback Well built Mycenae GN720 This is the thirteenth in a series...monographs on the excavations at the citadel of Mycenae. It covers the service areas of the cult...
|
|
BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS: On the Amenhotep III Inscribed Faience Fragments from Mycenae.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Chrestos Tsountas, George Mylonas, and William Taylour at Mycenae and mostly inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs have elicited...should be considered together.(6) The comparison of the Mycenae fragments to Egyptian foundation deposit bricks as put forward...
|
|
|
Those beyond the walls: the Mycenaean era is known mostly for the great palaces at Mycenae, Pylos, and Tiryns. But what about the working people? It is necessary, and important, to look beyond the palace walls to find out how they lived.
Magazine article from: Calliope; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...houses and settlements. Archaeological evidence is sail limited, but a group of four houses excavated outside the walls of Mycenae offers a good view of how private houses were constructed during the period of the palaces. These houses--the West House...
|
|
|
Mycenae. (Calliope's World).
Magazine article from: Calliope; 9/1/2002; ; 420 words
; Mycenae was an ancient city on the plain of Argolis...modern town of Mikinai. About 1400 B.C, Mycenae reached its height as the chief cultural...in the epics of the Greek poet Homer, Mycenae was the home of King Agamemnon, and the...
|
|
|
Travel: A man could have no nobler grave Mycenae Dilys Powell's late husband, an archaeologist, was buried at Mycenae in 1936. In this extract from `An Affair of the Heart', just republished, she tells how a return visit rekindled her love for Greece
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 6/20/1999; ; 700+ words
; MY VISIT to Mycenae was a looking back. Eight years earlier...rock where Schliemann, when he dug at Mycenae in the 1870s, found royal treasure...for the first time in all my visits to Mycenae, at a table other than the Fair Helen...
|
|
|
On the net.(web sites about Mycenae and Minoan civilizations)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 9/1/2002; ; 517 words
; ...that is filled with information about Mycenae and links to related sites, try; www...For a tour of Agammenon's citadel at Mycenae, go to: www.lfc.edu/academics...Classics and Preseus site, with links to Mycenae and the ancient Grek myths, hit: www...
|
|
Mycenae
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Mycenae an ancient city in Greece, situated near the coast in the NE Peloponnese, the centre of the late Bronze Age Mycenaean civilization...
|
|
Mycenaean civilization
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...civilization known from the excavations at Mycenae and other sites. They were first undertaken...influenced their culture, and by 1600 BC, Mycenae had become a major center of the ancient...violent destruction of Knossos c.1400 BC, Mycenae achieved supremacy, and much of the Minoan...
|
|
Schliemann, Heinrich
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...more important were his excavations at Mycenae (1876). These brought to light an advanced...establish clear connections between Troy and Mycenae, Schliemann returned to excavate at Troy...earlier than the shaft grave burials at Mycenae, though Schliemann did not acknowledge...
|
|
Orestes
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
...murder of his father, King Agamemnon of Mycenae, by killing his own mother, Clytemnestra...Artemis*. When Agamemnon returned to Mycenae at the end of the war, he was murdered...Orestes and his friend Pylades went to Mycenae disguised as messengers, and they met...
|
|
Heinrich Schliemann
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...of Troy and that the Atreid graves at Mycenae were situated inside the walls of the...continue his excavations. He went to Mycenae, where he began to dig near the Lion...eventually led to Schliemann's book Mycenae (1877). In 1878 Schliemann returned...
|
