The late bronze-age culture of Mycenae that flourished 1400-1100 BC.
1This was the characteristic ware of the Mycenaean civilization.
2Yes, Laertes was king of Ithaka, but Ithaka was just a rocky, barren island on the fringes of what was then the Mycenaean civilization.
3In the following short list will be found the volumes on the Minoan and Mycenæan civilizations which are most accessible to the ordinary reader: