Mycenaean Greece

Homer (; , ; possibly born ) was an ancient Greek poet who is widely credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Although his life and authorship remain obscure, Homer was highly revered in ancient Greek society and is considered one of the most influential authors in history.

late Bronze Age Greek civilization

Greek island in the Ionian Sea

period of time in ancient Greece

museum in Athens, Greece

most ancient attested form of the Greek language from the 16th to 12th centuries BC

thumb|Heracles holding [[Hyllus with Deianira nearby, as the centaur Nessus pleads for his life (Pompeii fresco)]] right|thumb|Heracles with his son Telephus, one of the Heracleidae

Kition (Ancient Greek: , ; Latin: ; Egyptian: ; Phoenician: , , or , ;) was an ancient Phoenician and Greek city-kingdom on the southern coast of Cyprus (in present-day Larnaca), one of the ten city-kingdoms of Cyprus.

Pithos (, , plural: '''''''' ) is the Greek name of a large storage container. The term in English is applied to such containers used among the civilizations that bordered the Mediterranean Sea in the Neolithic, the Bronze Age and the succeeding Iron Age. Pithoi were used for bulk storage, primarily for fluids and grains; they were comparable to the drums, barrels and casks of recent times.The name was different in other languages; for instance, the Hittites used harsi-''.

municipality of Paphos District, Republic of Cyprus

legendary ancient invasion of southern Greece

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thumb|300px|The Sherden in battle as depicted at Medinet Habu (temple)|Medinet Habu The Sherden (Egyptian: šrdn, šꜣrdꜣnꜣ or šꜣrdynꜣ; Ugaritic: šrdnn(m) and trtn(m); possibly Akkadian: šêrtânnu; also glossed "Shardana" or "Sherdanu") are one of the several ethnic groups the Sea Peoples were said to be composed of, appearing in fragmentary historical and iconographic records (ancient Egyptian and Ugaritic) from the Eastern Mediterranean in the late 2nd millennium BC.

thumb|385x385px|Map of Bronze Age [[Near East depicting the location of Wilusa in Northwest Anatolia.]]

military item

type or style of Ancient Greek ceramic

collective name of the Greeks in Homer's poems

275px|thumb|Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age

full body armor from Greece

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warfare, armor, and weapons from Mycenae, Greece

thumb|Denyen prisoners on a register from :File:Medinet Habu Ramses III. Tempel Erster Hof 01.jpg|a graphic wall relief on the Second Pylon at Medinet Habu, BC, during the reign of [[Ramesses III.]] The Denyen (Egyptian: dꜣjnjnjw) is purported to be one of the groups constituting the Sea Peoples.

Walmu was a king of Wiluša, likely modern Hisarlık, in the late 13th century BC.

ancient Greek religion of the Mycenaean civilisation

gold goblet discovered in 1876 by Heinrich Schliemann

Nichoria () is a site in Messenia, on a ridgetop near modern Rizomylos, at the northwestern corner of the Messenian Gulf. From the Middle to Late Bronze Age it cultivated olive and terebinth for export. During the Helladic period it was part of the Mycenaean civilisation.

Archaeological site in Mycenae, Greece