History of the Mycenaean Athens (1600-1100 BC)

We know Athens as the epitome of the Classical democracy and one of the most celebrated city-states of ancient Greece. In this video, we talk about the Athenian beginnings in the Bronze Age, from its foundation until the Mycenaean collapse.

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[peterthesneakybastar]

It’s interesting how the Dorians came out on top in the Bronze Age collapse, the Spartan-Athenian war, and in the Macedonian wars, and yet it was the descendant of the Ionian dialect that took over Greece and largely survived to this day.

[brqbat]

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[historywithsnave]

Very interesting video! I actually have started delving into ancient Egypt on my channel since I'm a big ancient history enthusiast. Definitely going to be checking out some of your other content!

[skibidiseether]

Great video👍!! Please do one on Enmebaragesi next

[Rithymna]

Great video as always. Covering the role of Athens in the colonization of the islands and Asia Minor could be a good idea for a future video

[afchehiro]

The older cyclopean walls were called Tyrrhenian, while the mycenean walls of Acropolis, which can still be seen in the western side, were called Pelasgian! According to Herodotos, the Pelasgians of Athens built the walls in exchange for some nearby land on mount Hymettus!!!

[odysseus]

Amazing video as always! It would not surprise me if the earthquake and the fissure inspired the myth of Poseidon creating a water source in Athens. After all, he was also a god of earthquakes. I wish the surviving king list went beyond Aktaios, since there is also a legend of an older king, Periphas, and it would be really cool to know how these two were related, if they were at all!

[milansavic]

Good day to you... Great insight in ancient history. Congratulations!!!
I would like to see a video about, if its possible, about ancient greek presence on the eastern Adriatic coast, and about places that are possible alternative locations of city of Troy on that coast (as Daorson near Stolac in modern Bosnia and Hercegovina and Duklja sight near Podgorica in Montenegro).
Thank you, and good luck with your future work.

[manstarxranx]

Greece is the great civilization of Europe and the world!

[leebagley]

Your Channel is very rewarding to watch, thank you for great videos

[gold]

The site of Troy shows continual warfare destruction for 100 years. The "10 year war" mentioned in Homeric literature could be a storytelling method to condense that century of war into ten years for easier storytelling.

[azwris]

The best and most objective non-Geeek website about Ancient Greece.

[GHST]

We love Athens so much, our daughter's middle name is Athena.

[JesusRocksTryPrayin]

history is mind-blowing.. even moreso when we know 'what we don't know' or rather, in view of the lens that history has been fractured through :) ruling cultures view more oft than not

[pontiacpaul]

Alot more was there . shame u cant find much on tholos tombs of attica was a few cities there back then plus dragon houses.

[LuisAldamiz]

I was hoping for a bit more detail on Theseus, the first lawgiver of Athens, and his legend. The Labyrinth holds most important cues for those among us trying to match the fragmentary proto-history, legend and archaeological prehistory into a cohesive whole. It was certainly an most important legend for a paysan of mine who also inspired me very much, Federico Krutwig. He was persuaded, well before the time was mature, of the Vasconic connections through Europe and the Mediterranean and wrote a lot, not so much about Theseus as such but about the Labyrinth (which he felt was exploring himself) and Ariadne's thread (where thread = mythos = myth, a most important cue again).

Theseus is after all not just famous for slaying the Minotaur but for actually being able to exit the Labyrinth (the confusion of the obscure past) with the help of mythos (the thread of oral history in an obvious homonimy). In the terms of a moder satyrical reintrepretation: if the bull-slaying hero does not know how to use the thread, he will die in the Labyrinth, never to see light again, that's why Ariadne is such an important figure (probably again a manifestation of the ancestral supreme Goddess Gaia). He's also infamous for ditching Ariadne in the Cyclades (highly symbolic) after her decisive help and thus (allegorically) losing the associated wisdom. Luckily for us she was rescued by Dyonisos, or so they say.

In terms material, Athens definitely established extensive commercial relations with Crete in any case, and that's another key issue that surely the Thesean legend reflects.

[GM-scpt]

The ancient account I read, said Attica remained in Achaean hands, because the King of Athens challenged the Dorian leader to a duel. The Dorians could not breach the Acropolis defences and the Athenians had enough grain, dried meat and fruit there, to last for years. Plus they had a permanent water cistern. The Dorian leader didn't want to engage in a long siege, so he accepted the challenge. They took an oath, that the winner would keep Attica. The Athenian king killed the Dorian leader and retained Attica.

[madsdahlc]

While Athens would came out of the dark ages as a strong powerfull citystate. Mycenae would newer become a major citystate in Greece again . The city was still poulated, but only a shadow of former self. A temple to Hera was on mycenae 's acropolis in archaic times . And Mycenae joined the the other greek citystates against persians. Mycenaean soldiers fought at both Thermopylae(with king Leonidas ) and Plataea during persian wars . After the greek victory . Mycenae's end would come very fast . In 468 bce Mycenae and Argos went to with each other . A war Mycenae lost . The city was burned down, the population moved/expelled to Argos and the walls/fortifications razed to the ground . And Mycenae became a ghost town ...

[mercianthane]

I once read that the name of the city it is a plural proper noun, and that it took its name from a local priesthood composed only by priestesses known as the Athanai, which later gave the name to the city as Athens.

[ecurewitz]

Does anything remain of Mycenaean era Athens?