Mycenology

Death mask, known as theMask of Agamemnon,Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 16th century BC, probably the most famous artifact of Mycenaean Greece.^[1]

Mycenologyis the study of theMycenaeanGreek language and the culture and institutions recorded in that language. It emerged as a discipline auxiliary to classical philology in 1953, following the deciphering ofMinoan Linear Bscript byAlice Kober,Michael VentrisandJohn Chadwick.^[2]^[3]

References

^Burns, Bryan E. (2010).Mycenaean Greece, Mediterranean Commerce and the Formation of Identity(1st ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 9780521119542.The most famous object from Shaft Grave V, if not all of Mycenaean Greece, is the gold mask popularly known as the "mask of Agamemnon".
^Brown, W. Edward (1960-01-01). "An Introduction to Mycenology".The Classical World.53(6): 186–191.doi:10.2307/4344324.JSTOR 4344324.
^"Cracking the code: the decipherment of Linear B 60 years on".University of Cambridge.2012-10-13.Retrieved2017-01-23.

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[1] Burns, Bryan E. (2010).Mycenaean Greece, Mediterranean Commerce and the Formation of Identity(1st ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 9780521119542.The most famous object from Shaft Grave V, if not all of Mycenaean Greece, is the gold mask popularly known as the "mask of Agamemnon".

[2] Brown, W. Edward (1960-01-01). "An Introduction to Mycenology".The Classical World.53(6): 186–191.doi:10.2307/4344324.JSTOR 4344324.

[3] "Cracking the code: the decipherment of Linear B 60 years on".University of Cambridge.2012-10-13.Retrieved2017-01-23.

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