Mycenae

n. ancient Greek city; center of the Mycenaean civilization

Lion Gate redirects here, for other meanings see Lions' Gate (disambiguation) Mycenae (Greek ), is an archaeological site in Greece, located about 90km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese. Argos is 6 km to the south; Corinth, 48 km to the north. From the hill on which the palace was located one can see across the Argolid to the Saronic Gulf.In the second millennium BC Mycenae was one of the major centres of Greek civilization, a military stronghold which dominated much of southern Greece. The period of Greek history from about 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is called Mycenaean in reference to Mycenae.
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Noun
1. an ancient city is southern Greece; center of the Mycenaean civilization
(hypernym) city, metropolis, urban center
(part-holonym) Greece, Hellenic Republic, Ellas