15 Facts About Mycenae

Mycenae is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece.

Mycenae was among the numerous Aegean sites destroyed as part of the Bronze Age Collapse around 1200 BC.

Unlike many other sites, Mycenae was partly rebuilt after this destruction, though it was no longer the center of a centralized literate bureacuracy.

Pottery finds suggest that Postpalatial Mycenae eventually regained some its wealth, before burning .

In 468 BC troops from Argos captured Mycenae, expelled the inhabitants and razed the fortifications.

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Mycenae was briefly reoccupied in the Hellenistic period, when it could boast a theatre .

The palace of Mycenae probably ruled over a territory two to three times the size of the other palatial states in Bronze Age Greece.

Classical Greek myths assert that Mycenae was founded by Perseus, grandson of king Acrisius of Argos, son of Acrisius's daughter, Danae and the god Zeus.

Mycenae set the stage for future greatness by marrying Nicippe, a daughter of King Pelops of Elis, the most powerful state of the region and the times.

The Perseid dynasty came to an end and the people of Mycenae placed Eurystheus's maternal uncle, Atreus, a Pelopid, on the throne.

People of Mycenae had received advice from an oracle that they should choose a new king from among the Pelopids.

Mycenae's first move was to pursue Thyestes and all his family – that is, his own kin – but Thyestes managed to escape from Mycenae.

Mycenae returned as an adult with his sister Electra to slay Clytemnestra and Aegistheus.

Mycenae then fled to Athens to evade justice and a matricide, and became insane for a time.

Mycenae found the ancient shaft graves with their royal skeletons and spectacular grave goods.