Mykene, also Mykenai, Mykenä, outdated Mycenae or poetic Myzen (ancient Greek Μυκήνη Mykḗnē or Μυκήνα Mykḗna, also as plural Μυκῆναι Mykḗnai (f. pl.);[1] Latin Mycenae; modern Greek Μυκήννα Cities of Greece, the Mycenaean culture was named after them. The city lay on a hill north of the plain of Argos. From here one surveyed and controlled the land route between the southern Peloponnese and the Isthmus of Corinth, which connects the Peloponnesian peninsula with the rest of the mainland, initially with Attica and Boeotia.

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