{"id":3694,"date":"2010-06-10T11:36:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T11:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mycenaean\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T09:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:34:14","slug":"mycenaean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/mycenaean\/","title":{"rendered":"Mycenaeans"},"content":{"rendered":"

M<\/strong>ycenaean<\/strong> is the name given to the culture of\u00a0ancient Greece (excluding Crete) during the Late Bronze Age<\/a> (1500\u20131100 BC). They were also\u00a0called Achaeans<\/a>. The controversial writer Felice Vinci<\/a> maintains that a Northern European tribe was referred to as Achaeans by Homer<\/a> and\u00a0that they\u00a0migrated south and founded the Mycenaean civilisation.<\/p>\n

Among the many geographical identifications of Homeric locations in the Baltic<\/a> by Vinci is his claim that Mycenae was probably located on the same site as Copenhagen and associated Thebes with Stockholm [019<\/a>.218]<\/sup>. Compare this with Iman Wilkens<\/a>‘ claim that Mycenae had been situated in northern France [610<\/a>.121] <\/sup>!<\/p>\n

However, it was Martin Persson Nilsson (1874-1967), a Swedish historian, who was an earlier proponent of a Nordic origin for the Mycenaeans. <\/b>A Northern European location for Mycenae (and Sparta) has also been proposed by John Esse Larsen<\/a>, who has specified Hareskov in northeast Denmark(d)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

However, recent genetic studies suggest that the mainland Mycenaeans and the Cretan Minoans share a common ancestry with Neolithic populations of what are today Turkey and Greece(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Stavros Papamarinopoulos<\/a> claims[<\/sup>750<\/sup><\/a>.73]<\/sup> that the Athens described by Plato in the Critias<\/em> is an accurate description of Mycenaean Athens <\/b>and then leaps to the conclusion that because the details of Athens provided by Plato are correct, then it must follow that his depiction of Atlantis is equally reliable! For me, this is an unacceptable non sequitur<\/em>, as Plato lived in Athens and would have been fully aware of the city’s landmarks and tradition. On the other hand, he had not been to Atlantis, in fact, he was somewhat vague regarding its actual location. Jason Colavito<\/a> also took issue with Papamarinopoulos’ contention(f)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

However, there is evidence of Mycenaean warriors fighting alongside Egyptian soldiers of the 18th Dynasty(e)<\/sup>!<\/p>\n

Austen Atkinson in his Impact Earth<\/em>[109<\/a>] <\/sup>suggested the possibility that the unexplained\u00a0ending of the Mycenaean civilisation could be explained as a consequence of Earth\u2019s encounter with Pha\u00ebton<\/a> referred to by Plato (Tim.22c-d).<\/p>\n

However, there\u00a0are current studies(a)<\/sup> being made\u00a0into the possibility that earthquakes were responsible for the demise of the Mycenaeans and the start of the Greek \u2018Dark Ages\u2019.<\/p>\n

However, the earthquake theory is\u00a0also under attack(b)<\/sup>, with the proposal that either an uprising or invasion was responsible for the demise of Mycenaean Greece.<\/p>\n

A recent outline[<\/sup>226<\/sup><\/a>]<\/sup> of the Mycenaean culture has been produced by Rodney Castleden<\/a>,<\/strong> who has also written about Atlantis.<\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170702144950\/https:\/\/www.seeker.com\/did-an-earthquake-destroy-ancient-greece-1767465731.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(b)<\/sup> http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250215123918\/https:\/\/www.tornosnews.gr\/en\/greek-news\/culture\/30911-new-study-mycenaean-civilization-might-have-collapsed-due-to-uprising-or-invasion.html<\/p>\n

(c)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/archaeology\/MAGAZINE-mystery-of-where-the-minoans-came-from-solved-1.5439462<\/a><\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup> http:\/\/odisse.me.uk\/the-danaan-islands-seeland-and-arcadia.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(e)<\/sup>\u00a0https:\/\/www.thearchaeologist.org\/blog\/x4z1qi7hp27q8mjvo74cbzz9uc8irm?rq=abydos<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(f)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.jasoncolavito.com\/blog\/a-minor-atlantis-mystery-did-plato-correctly-describe-mycenaean-athens-in-the-critias<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mycenaean is the name given to the culture of\u00a0ancient Greece (excluding Crete) during the Late Bronze Age (1500\u20131100 BC). They were also\u00a0called Achaeans. The controversial writer Felice Vinci maintains that a Northern European tribe was referred to as Achaeans by Homer and\u00a0that they\u00a0migrated south and founded the Mycenaean civilisation. Among the many geographical identifications of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[648,1333,22,125,2249,2159,1331,123,1070,1266,3485,1332,679,270,794,1776],"class_list":["post-3694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-achaeans","tag-austen-atkinson","tag-baltic","tag-bronze-age","tag-dark-ages","tag-earthquakes","tag-felici-vinci","tag-homer","tag-iman-wilkens","tag-jason-colavito","tag-john-esse-larsen","tag-martin-persson-nilsson","tag-mycenaean","tag-phaeton","tag-rodney-castleden","tag-stavros-papamarinopoulos"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67558,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions\/67558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}