Cultures of the Mountains and the Sea

Vocab 5.1

Mycenaean Civilization• The late bronze-age

culture of Mycenae that flourished 1400-1100 BC.

• The Mycenaean civilization can be seen as a forerunner to classical Ancient Greece.

Trojan War

• A great war fought between Greece and Troy; the Greeks sailed to Troy to recover Helen, the beautiful wife of Menelaus who had been abducted by a Trojan Prince; after ten years the Greeks achieved victory and burned Troy to the ground.

Homer

• Homer is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets.

Myth

• A traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events.