Mycenae
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin Mycenae, Ancient Greek Μυκῆναι (Mukênai), the name of the Ancient Greek city, from Μυκήνη (Mukḗnē), a nymph in Greek mythology who lived around Mycenae. Doublet of Mykines.
Two traditional etymologies exist:
- According to Pausanias, Perseus, the legendary founder of the city, named it either after the cap of the sheath of his sword or after a mushroom he had plucked on the site (either way, the term would derive from Ancient Greek μύκης (múkēs)).
- Homer connected the name to the abovementioned Mycene (or Mykene), daughter of Inachus, first King of Argos (Odyssey, 2.120). Homer was not alone in identifying Inachus as a river god, and thus Mycene as a nymph.
Proper noun
[edit]Mycenae
- An ancient Greek city in the NE Peloponnesus on the plain of Argos, inhabited since about 4000 B.C.E.
- 1958, Alan John Bayard Wace, Elizabeth Bayard French, The Mycenae Tablets II, American Philosophical Society, page 1,
- The excavators of Mycenae added in 1953 and 1954 important new materials to the small but excellent archives of Mycenae.
- 1992 [Routledge], Richard Tomlinson, From Mycenae to Constantinople, 2003, Taylor & Francis e-Library, page 31,
- In 479 BC the citizen army of Mycenae marched to Plataea in Boeotia to join the other mainland Greek cities in inflicting the final defeat which terminated Xerxes' invasion of Greece.
- 2000, Maureen Joan Alden, Well Built Mycenae, Oxbow Books, page 1:
- The Prehistoric Cemetery at Mycenae provides our most coherent glimpse of the Middle Hellenic period at Mycenae.
- 1958, Alan John Bayard Wace, Elizabeth Bayard French, The Mycenae Tablets II, American Philosophical Society, page 1,
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[edit]Translations
[edit]ancient Greek city
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Latin
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μυκῆναι (Mukênai).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /myˈkeː.nae̯/, [mʏˈkeːnäe̯]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /miˈt͡ʃe.ne/, [miˈt͡ʃɛːne]
Proper noun
[edit]Mycēnae f pl (genitive Mycēnārum); first declension
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun, with locative, plural only.
| plural | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Mycēnae |
| genitive | Mycēnārum |
| dative | Mycēnīs |
| accusative | Mycēnās |
| ablative | Mycēnīs |
| vocative | Mycēnae |
| locative | Mycēnīs |
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Mycenae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Mycenae”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Mycenae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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