Exploring Mycenaean Greece - Culture, Kingdoms and the Historical Context of the Trojan War
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- čas přidán 10. 05. 2024
- In this video we'll journey back to the late Bronze Age and explore Mycenaean Civilization in Greece and the wider Aegean world. We'll also delve into the historical events that may have led to armed conflicts between Mycenaeans and Hittites and that may have ultimately served as the basis for Homer's great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Contents:
00:00 Contents and Introduction
02:43 Helladic Chronology Explained
03:42 Discovery of Mycenaean Culture
05:35 Geography of Greece
07:28 Early Mycenaeans
10:58 “Mycenae, Rich in Gold”
13:32 Linear B
16:54 Mycenaean Society and Material Culture
21:21 Mycenaean Palatial Centers and Major Kingdoms
23:39 Orchomenos
25:30 Gla
26:00 Thebes
27:00 Athens
29:10 Tiryns
29:49 Pylos
31:15 Daily Life, Food and Economy
36:41 Importance of Bronze
38:08 Warfare and Weapons
40:25 Hunting and Horses
41:47 Roads
42:26 Religion
45:28 Minoans and Maritime Trade
48:07 Earthquake on Thera
49:26 Mycenaeans on Crete
52:22 Mycenaean Political Unity?
53:31 Ahhiyawa and the Hittites
55:31 Attarissiya of Ahhiya
57:55 The Assuwan Confederacy
1:00:10 Piyamaradu and the Tawagalawa Letter
1:05:16 Alaksandu of Wilusa (Troy)
1:08:29 Ahhiyawa and Tudhaliya IV
1:11:20 Are Mycenaean Greece and Ahhiyawa the Same?
1:13:07 Mycenaean Trade with the World
1:15:08 The Uluburun Shipwreck
1:18:01 Fear and Dread
1:23:15 Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
1:25:53 Possible Theories for the Fall of Mycenaean Civilization
1:27:24 End of an Era
1:28:54 Thank You and Patrons
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Machinimas created using Total War: Rome 2 Age of Bronze mod
Sources and Suggested Reading:
The Mycenaeans - Louise Schofield
Mycenaeans - Rodney Castleden
In Search of the Trojan War - Michael Wood
The Iliad - Homer (translation by Peter Green)
Dawn of the Gods: Minoan and Mycenaean Origins of Greece - Jacquetta Hawkings
The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age - Edited by Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean World: Palace and Province in the Late Bronze Age - Margaretha Kramer-Hajos
The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age: A History - Jean-Claude Poursat and Carl Knappett
Mycenaean Messenia and the Kingdom of Pylos - Richard Hope Simpson
Mycenae: A Journey in the World of Agamemnon - Alkestis Papadimitriou and Elsi Spathari
Mycenae: A Guide to the History and Archaeology - Elsi Spathari
A Historical Greek Reader: Mycenaean to the Koiné - Stephen Colvin
A Companion to Linear B - Edited by Yves Duhoux and Anna Morpurgo Davies
A Mycenaean Fountain on the Athenian Acropolis - Oscar Broneer
The Oxford Handbook of the Aegean Bronze Age - Edited by Eric Cline
The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe - Barry Cunliffe
Warriors of Anatolia - Trevor Bryce
Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East: The Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age - Trevor Bryce
"A Mycenaean Sword from Boǧazköy-Hattusa Found in 1991" in The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 89 (1994), pp. 213-215 - O. Hansen
"Aššuwa and the Achaeans: The 'Mycenaean' Sword at Hattušas and Its Possible Implications" in The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 91 (1996), pp. 137-151 - E. H. Cline
Shout out to ARCAS Travel for arranging visits to many of the sites seen in this program. Their team went above and beyond what was expected, and I couldn’t have visited all of these places without their help!
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Ancient cultures have always fascinated me. The fact that we have anything from them at all is amazing.
I'm with you on this! Thanks for watching!
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I don't know about that but honored and humbled that you think so! Thanks so much for the support and for watching!
@@HistorywithCyHonestly your one of the most thorough historians on youtube, you try to add multiple contexts, and you give different possibilities on stuff where's there's missing pieces.
No one's unbiased but I can't tell you try not to. Thanks for the hard work
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Jkjk. I started talking about Linear B and she went right to sleep. I love it tho.
I love when he does the voices. I think it’s Sargon himself lol
Ah the Mycenaeans: wonderful, alluring, enchanting and, to this day, enigmatic. Their civilization is utterly unique- thanks for this ep. on a chilly Sunday night! Be safe.
Agreed. I had so much fun researching and making this video and will do more Mycenaean-related stuff in the future. Thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCyI'm looking to find out as much as possible about the Europe and especially south eastern Europe history and I really enjoyed to see that someone separated the Mycenaean history of the Greek history. Actually the Greeks coming in the area are the beginning of the end of the Mycenaean civilization. There were two different kind of culture. Where ever the Greeks came, they found there the pelasgians which seems to be the south Thracians or similar people and we know this from Herodotus. We know also that the last isle conquered by the Greeks was Lemnos and the Greeks said that the Thracians were the original people of it. Iliad is also saying that the Trojans called to help them some Thracians being rhem relatives. The Greeks were a civilization of wars/conflicts, authority and domination property of the land, slavery, patriarchy and people control. The Minoan and the Mycenaean culture were exactly the opposite. The same process of destruction happened when a similar culture as the Greek one, the Indo-European one came and destroyed the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture. The same, again when the Rome a culture derived from the Greek culture raised up, the Etruscans culture, matriarchy, no war weapons, no authorities, no slavery, was destroyed. So I think that a few important changes made the Europe and all the world to be what it is today, a jewish culture and hegemony world. The book "A new history of the humanity" reveal the last of this changes, when the Europeans invade and conquered the North America territories and in that book is a good description and understanding of this process of the cultural changes.
Do I have an hour and a half to watch a video on Mycenaean Greece? Hell yeah!
Cy, you truly have stepped in to take the place of History Channel for me. I just love the way you narrate and the flow you have to telling history that makes it come alive. However much careful planning you put into these videos really shows and is supremely appreciated.
Absolutely. After The History Channel ran out Nazi documentaries, it morphed into the ridiculous.
I was like "only 10,000 views?? how, this is gold!" and then I saw "posted 13 hours ago"
So good to see so much detail in each city, must have been really tough to find info in such detail, thanks!
Thanks, I have a lot of b-roll from Mycenae, Tiryns and Pylos that I might just make short, separate videos on those places...or maybe something like a walking tour so that those of you who haven't been there can see what they're like. Thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCy would love to see them. also if you could do a deep dive on the terraforming done at gla. gla is fascinating
"What grand and majestic name should we give our new city?"
"GLA"
"Oh, I think he's puking"
"Nah, he isn't puking. He is a literal genius. Henceforth we all are the citizens of *GLA!"*
😂😂😂
@@sizanogreen9900Making GLA Great Aegean!
The 3 founders of Gla: we'll use our initials! It will be so cool.
Or
Tourism board of Gla: we'll create this 3-letter combo trademark for our city. It will be groundbreaking.
Meanwhile, present day: what a weird name. Now, back to Mary Beard's book on the Roman Empire: SPQR.
at least you could pronounce "Gla"@@sarahrosen4985
You have no idea how much I needed this, doing my classical civilisations gcse either this year or next, and I've been looking desperately for a reliable and interesting video on the mycenaeans.
Glad this was useful. GCSE on Classical Civilizations sounds really interesting, good luck!
I would just like to thank this channel for the important content it offers. Informative and doesn't waste everyone's time with deceptive re-enactments, which are never adequate. Instead we are shown actual artifacts, with labels, along with the archaeology and locale. Graphics are of low quality, but that's almost the point. Thanks.
I dont know how Cy does it. He keeps it interesting and entertaining in this one as always, his passion just bleeds through into it. Good work!
Thank you Cy! I've amassed so many hours watching your Mesopotamian videos and more that at this point, frankly, it would just be a bit rude of me not to tell you that you're the bees knees of a CZcams Historian! Fascinating content, passionately curated and lovingly presented - much thanks from the UK!
My tour guide in the mountain view at 2:20 explained that the two peaks represented cattle horns. She went on to explain the old Greek culture here, but I'm only now understanding what she was talking about.
You literally have been my go to for History ever since History Channel stopped showing actual History it is hard to find long videos featuring History. And fun fact yesterday I was looking at a recommended article saying that Minoan and Mycenaeen share common ancestors due to similarities in DNA they both descended from the first Neolithic farmers of western Anatolia and the Aegean but Mycenaeen people who are share DNA ancestry with the modern Greeks have an additional ancestry of Caucasus and Iran northern steppe populations.
I recommend Ancient Americas channel, they have a very similar style but it's all about ancient america. Fall of Civilizations it's also amazing. Covers ancient history from all over the world but they post only once every six months or so. One of my favorite channels is Religion for Breakfast on the topic of history of religions
@@WildVoltorb will check it out
@@WildVoltorb Subcribed to them
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Then you are from one of my favorite countries in the world... definitely my favorite in Europe! Thanks for watching!
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I read an article a couple days ago about the results of a recent DNA study of Mycenaean and Minoan remains. Excellent video, as always. Awesome history channel.
What were the results?
Cy, Ive been looking for consolidated information on mycenae for a bit now. Very glad youve made something
Awesome, I hope this helps! Thanks for watching!
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If I become a teacher, I may use your content, it’s well presented, well organized, and has a TON of valuable historical information. Keep it up Cy
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Enjoy!
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Thanks so much, really glad you're enjoying this and the other topics. Working on the next Egypt Dynasty video and hope to have it out next month. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
Yo you are a legend bro your videos always are top notch with detail of primary evidence and great narration of old texts. Your one of the best history channels on CZcams 1000%
Thank you, Cy, for the vast amount of time and effort you expend to create these fascinating and in-depth videos!
Thanks, youve become one of my fav history channels over the years
Thank you, appreciate the kind words and glad you like the content. Thanks for watching all of these years, means a lot!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for making an hour long video on my absolute favorite ancient civilization 😻😻😻🧿🧿🧿
I really need to hop on patreon, I feel like I owe it to you. Since discovering your channel about a year ago I consistently watched your videos every morning while shaving and in the background until I exhausted them about 4 months ago. My house seems different without your voice there so it's always good to see when you've published new work. The quality was great as always, my interest lies primarily in the Near East but I am always impressed by the consistent quality you display and your ability to digest and pass on information. Masterful.
Absolutely amazing that there is a free video for over an hour, covering the Mycenaeans! I’m looking forward to this!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us and giving us the facts, theories, and voices of past civilizations! This is beyond cool 🙂🔺☀️🔺🙏
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Fantastic introduction and overview of the Mycenaean culture and the associated history, which is of crucial and particularly formative importance for the culture of the Western world and its development up to the present day. Great history lesson. Thank you very much for this really great video!
What a wonderful achievement Cy. Well done for your efforts as always. 90+ minutes must have been a big chunk of work on many fronts!
Thank you for another fantastic video! I love these longer episodes. I enjoy how the Myceneans are simultaneously mysterious and yet well-known in the historical and archeological record.
God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)
Thanks so much, glad you found it useful... I like longer ones too because I feel I can tell a more complete story. Thanks for watching!
Truly excellent! Thank you!
Your videos are such good quality. Thank you, Cy!
Thanks, appreciate the feedback and thanks also for watching!
Excellent production quality, easily followed narration and well chosen imagery. I'd expect nothing less from Cy.
Great production as always
The magnificent Greece with its immense history❤
Great stuff as always! Better than any other history channel available 😀
Another excellent video. Look forward to watching the rest tomorrow
Thanks and hope you enjoy it!
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Thanks, glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!
Just wonderful. Thank you for this
Thank YOU for watching!
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At 24:50 zoom in, everybody, on the roof of that vault. The details!
Amazing... can you imagine what it must have looked like just after it was finished? Incredible stuff! Thanks for watching!
Amazing footage!
Thank you for the great content ❤
You're welcome!
Thanks for sharing with us Cy Guy!
My pleasure, thanks for watching!
thank you for this.
This is so good! Thank you!
Glad you liked it and thanks for watching!
Well-researched, well presented: JUST EXCELLENT!
Thanks, appreciate the feedback and really glad you enjoyed this. More on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!
A masterful presentation. Thank you very much!
My pleasure, was fun to make and thanks for watching!
Great one thanks so much.
Thank you, Cy!
very much enjoy the scenery and the ruins filmed on such a beautiful day, blue sky and bright sunshine, a beautiful location !! I hope one day to visit. Have been told that in the early language the way the word Mycenae was said is as follows: mic-ken-eye, and mic-ken-eye-an
I've been reading George Nagy's Greek Mythology and Poetics, binge watching Wanax TV and now Cy's feeding my addiction for Achaean History.
that was a great Video! Loved how you presedent the evidence!
Thanks, so glad you enjoyed it... was a lot of fun for me to research and hope to put out more Mycenaean-related stuff in the future. Thanks for watching!
Thanks Cy. Now I have more detail to add to my daily thinking about Mycenaean Greece.
Awesome, glad this was useful! Thanks for watching!
Thanks, Cy. More great stuff.
Thank you, and thanks for watching!
Ok, I know I’m a regular HWC viewer when I stay to hear the names of the sponsors and recognize a lot of them from other videos 😆 Another great video I enjoyed very much. 👍🏻
Never stop reading the patreons, I live to hear Pastafrola.
Always fun for me to read...thanks for watching all the way to the end, appreciate it!
Absolutely top notch!
Thank you!
I love it! Watched this video 3 times now!
Thanks so much, really glad you enjoyed this! I loved making it and comments like this motivate me to put out even more content for you all! Thanks again for the support!
Thank you again Cy
My pleasure, thanks for watching!
loooooved the exhibit and seeing the famous agamemnon death mask in person at greece's national archaeological museum ♥️ it was super interesting
An hour and a half Cy video on the Mycenaeans? Instant like
Enjoy and thanks for watching!
need another hour and a half more
Love the pacing on this one. A+
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!
Great video! Thank you!
Thanks, glad you liked it!
Yet another amazing video!
Thank you!
Wow, very comprehensive. Well done.
Thank you!
It should be mentioned that Agamemnon's and Menelaus's father was named Atreus. It wouldn't be surprising if the "Attarsiya" mentioned by the Hittites was Atreus. After all, Agamemnon and Menelaus being both kings would imply an inheritance of a kingdom that encompassed atleast their two kingdoms.
this was great! very well made!
My pleasure, was fun to make and thanks for watching!
GODDAMN CY 90 min!!!!!!! kick ass- you work your ass off and we appreciate you!
It is just mind blowing to me when he pulls out the texts, 57:51 for example where Arnuwanda is straight replaying Maddu's F up for him, from over two and a half millennia ago like they were just some tweets on X or something!?!
There should be a class in school where kids just get to hear the voices of our ancestors. Hear them speak of their issues, their concerns, their treachery, and triumph. It would be awesome. Also, i wish there was a website that would catalog all the available texts in a single place. I bet AI will one day make tremendous advances in these documents. Especially considering how so many of them remain unread and not deciphered.
Thank you!
This is a magnificent piece of work, Cy. I hope it will be used a lot in schools.
Thanks for the feedback and for watching, really appreciate it!
Excellent documentary, Cy!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
This is good work, ty
Thank you for watching!
so underrated brother love this channel
Thanks, so glad you're enjoying the content... lots more on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!
Excellent work Cy, thank you :-)
You're welcome, thanks so much for watching!
Absolutly wonderful description of that distant ancient societies... As far as I get IT SEEMS that even Aheeians Did manage to qonquered Wilusa ( Ilion& Troy) after return home they Did suffered a lot because others migratory invaders... Sea People... Regarding " Homer" Iliada & Odiseea ... Well they remain a Beautiful Story for many generations ... A unified poetical instrument for future Greek Polises ... Common grounds ... A sense of common knowledge & belonging of same POPULATION... Best regards from Bucarest ROMANIA 🍀🤗
right on time for my history of western civ course
Enjoy and hope this helps!
Cy you crazy man you did it thank you so much!
No, thank YOU for watching, really appreciate it!
Perfect timing, im in the middle of making a vid that covers the same period!
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Love this channel
Thank you!
What an impressive video!!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
Would like to see simmilar analysis of the Minoan culture. Great job on the video.
History with Cy: a gentleman, a scholar & a legend! Keep up the exemplary work & research! 🐻🙌🏼
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Thanks so much, I hope to live up to your kind words in future videos. Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
thank you sir.
You're welcome!
Just in time for the exam too... Awesome vid
Thanks...good luck on the exam!
Let's go!!!
Hope you enjoy it!
hello CY !
Im happy you are still active.
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A minor suggestion,unrealistic or not :
NEXT time please consider doing a video about Thracian culture -- you will be a champion, if you try since it is a difficult task D Only you can achive greatness in such hard topics
The King is back!
Sorry for the wait, hope you enjoy it!
Long Live the Ancient Dreams!
Awesome as always Cy. By "make soap" did you mean rub olive oil all over and scrape it off or did they use ash for lye soap? We've learned a lot since I studied Hellenistic culture with Dr. Gantz in 1986.
Ancient Sites Girl sent me here.
THAT IS ONE OF THE BEST VIDEO EVER!!!
Thanks, the Ancient Sites Girl channel rocks!
@@HistorywithCy
YES, she does!
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Enjoy!
Cy dropping the elbow smash with 1.5 hours of Mycenean goodness! Thank you sir and your hard work is very much appreciated.
Thanks man, always appreciate that you continue to tune into these vids. Lots more on the way, stay tuned and as always, thanks for watching!