In this video we'll journey back to the late Bronze Age and explore Mycenaean Civilization in Greece and the wider Aegean world. We'll also delve into the historical events that may have led to armed conflicts between Mycenaeans and Hittites and that may have ultimately served as the basis for Homer's great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Contents:

00:00 Contents and Introduction
02:43 Helladic Chronology Explained
03:42 Discovery of Mycenaean Culture
05:35 Geography of Greece
07:28 Early Mycenaeans
10:58 “Mycenae, Rich in Gold”
13:32 Linear B
16:54 Mycenaean Society and Material Culture
21:21 Mycenaean Palatial Centers and Major Kingdoms
23:39 Orchomenos
25:30 Gla
26:00 Thebes
27:00 Athens
29:10 Tiryns
29:49 Pylos
31:15 Daily Life, Food and Economy
36:41 Importance of Bronze
38:08 Warfare and Weapons
40:25 Hunting and Horses
41:47 Roads
42:26 Religion
45:28 Minoans and Maritime Trade
48:07 Earthquake on Thera
49:26 Mycenaeans on Crete
52:22 Mycenaean Political Unity?
53:31 Ahhiyawa and the Hittites
55:31 Attarissiya of Ahhiya
57:55 The Assuwan Confederacy
1:00:10 Piyamaradu and the Tawagalawa Letter
1:05:16 Alaksandu of Wilusa (Troy)
1:08:29 Ahhiyawa and Tudhaliya IV
1:11:20 Are Mycenaean Greece and Ahhiyawa the Same?
1:13:07 Mycenaean Trade with the World
1:15:08 The Uluburun Shipwreck
1:18:01 Fear and Dread
1:23:15 Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
1:25:53 Possible Theories for the Fall of Mycenaean Civilization
1:27:24 End of an Era
1:28:54 Thank You and Patrons

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Machinimas created using Total War: Rome 2 Age of Bronze mod

Sources and Suggested Reading:

The Mycenaeans - Louise Schofield
Mycenaeans - Rodney Castleden
In Search of the Trojan War - Michael Wood
The Iliad - Homer (translation by Peter Green)
Dawn of the Gods: Minoan and Mycenaean Origins of Greece - Jacquetta Hawkings
The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age - Edited by Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean World: Palace and Province in the Late Bronze Age - Margaretha Kramer-Hajos
The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age: A History - Jean-Claude Poursat and Carl Knappett
Mycenaean Messenia and the Kingdom of Pylos - Richard Hope Simpson
Mycenae: A Journey in the World of Agamemnon - Alkestis Papadimitriou and Elsi Spathari
Mycenae: A Guide to the History and Archaeology - Elsi Spathari
A Historical Greek Reader: Mycenaean to the Koiné - Stephen Colvin
A Companion to Linear B - Edited by Yves Duhoux and Anna Morpurgo Davies
A Mycenaean Fountain on the Athenian Acropolis - Oscar Broneer
The Oxford Handbook of the Aegean Bronze Age - Edited by Eric Cline
The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe - Barry Cunliffe
Warriors of Anatolia - Trevor Bryce
Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East: The Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age - Trevor Bryce
"A Mycenaean Sword from Boǧazköy-Hattusa Found in 1991" in The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 89 (1994), pp. 213-215 - O. Hansen
"Aššuwa and the Achaeans: The 'Mycenaean' Sword at Hattušas and Its Possible Implications" in The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 91 (1996), pp. 137-151 - E. H. Cline

Shout out to ARCAS Travel for arranging visits to many of the sites seen in this program. Their team went above and beyond what was expected, and I couldn’t have visited all of these places without their help!
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