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Meanings of mycenaean in inglês

The most ancient attested form of the Greek language, spoken on the Greek mainland and on Crete in the 16th to 11th centuries BC.

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Examples for "mycenaean greek"
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For instance, there is no hint that Linear B was used or understood by any Mycenaean Greek beyond small cadres of palace bureaucrats.
Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies
Usage of mycenaean in inglês
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He walked into a huge lobby decorated this year in Mycenaean Mode.
Dayworld
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But the Mycenaean pottery is of too great importance to be passed over.
A History of Greek Art / With an Introductory Chapter on Art in ...
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Or had he heard of it in a lost Mycenaean poem?
Homer and His Age
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It wouldn't be as hard as the Egyptian hieroglyphs or Mycenaean Linear B.
The thirteenth tale: a novel
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What name, O old man, did the Mycenæan people call you?
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
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Homer did not live in or describe the Mycenaean prime, with its stone arrow-tips.
Homer and His Age
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Tsountas and J. I. Manatt, the Mycenaean Age (1897); G. Perrot and Ch.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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Both the shape and the decoration are very different from those of the Mycenaean style.
A History of Greek Art / With an Introductory Chapter on Art in ...
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They adhere conscientiously to the use of the vast Mycenaean shield, in their time obsolete.
Homer and His Age
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No shields of bronze plating and no bronze corslets have been found in Mycenaean excavations.
Homer and His Age
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This was the characteristic ware of the Mycenaean civilization.
A History of Greek Art / With an Introductory Chapter on Art in ...
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It started back about two thousand years before Christ, in Mycenaean times or perhaps early Helladic.
Valis
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Syllabaries were common in ancient times, as exemplified by the Linear B writing of Mycenaean Greece.
Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies
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On the whole, the resemblance to the typical Mycenaean culture is more striking than the difference.
Homer and His Age
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We may find "Mycenaean" corslets and greaves, but they are not in cremation burials.
Homer and His Age
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Excavations on Mycenaean sites have yielded quantities of small figures, chiefly of painted terra-cotta (cf.
A History of Greek Art / With an Introductory Chapter on Art in ...
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