Mycenae (Crete)

Mycenae or Mykenai (Ancient Greek: Μυκῆναι) was a town of ancient Crete, the foundation of which was attributed by an historian of the Augustan age to Agamemnon.[1] Jean Hardouin proposed to read Mycenae for Myrina which is mentioned as a city of Crete in the text of Pliny the Elder.[2]

Its site is tentatively located near the modern Selli, Kastelli.[3][4] The editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World also tentatively accept the association of Mycenae with Pliny's Myrina.[4]

References

1. Vell. Paterc. 1.1
2. ad Pliny. Naturalis Historia. 4.12.
3. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
4. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 60, and directory notes accompanying.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Mycenae". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.