The first advanced civilization on mainland Greece, known for warrior culture, Linear B script, and the Trojan War tradition, ending in the Bronze Age Collapse.
Collapsed between approximately 1200 and 1050 BCE as part of the Late Bronze Age collapse, with all major palace centers destroyed or abandoned and palace-based administration ceasing; the civilization gave way to the Greek Dark Ages.
An up-to-date Cambridge account of Mycenaean palatial society and its Aegean setting for the serious general reader.
Authoritative reconstruction of Mycenaean society from the Linear B tablets by a co-decipherer of the script — polity-specific complement to 'Life in Mycenaean Greece'.
The standard accessible survey of the Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean Bronze Age Aegean for the general reader.
The Trojan War epic rooted in memories of the Mycenaean world.
Theseus in a vividly reconstructed Bronze-Age Aegean.