Mycenaean
Greece's bronze-age warlords
01
The Warlords of the Argolid
shaft graves full of gold reveal a warrior elite on the Greek mainland
1600-1500 BCE
02
The Palace Builders
massive citadels, tholos tombs, and the bureaucratic palace economy
1500-1400 BCE
03
The Conquest of Crete
the Mycenaeans seize Knossos and absorb Minoan culture
1450-1400 BCE
04
The International Age
diplomatic letters, trade with Egypt, and the Late Bronze Age network
1400-1250 BCE
05
Troy
the historical kernel behind Homer's Iliad
1250-1180 BCE
06
The World of Linear B
clay tablets reveal a Greek-speaking palace bureaucracy
Culture chapter
07
The Collapse
fire, destruction, and the end of the palatial world
1200-1100 BCE
08
The Dark Ages and the Birth of Legend
oral memory preserves Mycenaean heroes through centuries of illiteracy
1100-800 BCE