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From Warriors to Raiders: The Evolution of Mycenaean Weapons, Armament and Tactics. Patrick Lowinger. Prior to the 12th century BCE collapse of the Mycenaean citadels (city-fortresses), Mycenaean armies controlled Crete and the western coast and littoral regions of the Aegean Sea.
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By the end of the 11 century BCE, the previously large land-based armies which had arisen during the height of the Mycenaean Palatial Period (15-13 century BCE), had evolved into numerous bands of semi-autonomous sea-born raiders.
The militaristic aspects of Mycenaean society are clear in the archaeological record (iconographic representations of military combat and military equipment; discoveries of weapons and armor; studies of Mycenaean defensive fortifications) from the formative period
Introduction. The cohesion of military information indicates that the author of the information as imagined. Iliad had contemporary, accurate tactics and injuries cannot be. Inconsistencies may be due to corruption through the ages-long oral transmission or forgery (i.e. ΧΙΙΙ-685).
Existing evidence from many Mycenaean sources gives a picture of a society that was heavily invested in warfare, its preparations, and equipment. This study will present the information from the human skeletal remains from nine Mycenaean burials at the Athenian Agora, to show how military and
Cross-culturally speaking, weapons are considered symbolic capitals closely linked with the circulation of power and the creation of a civilisational order (Campbell 2014, 126). In other words, military power could be the central force to any Mycenaean palatial state.
how Mycenaean military was organised, the role it played in the society of the time, and how warfare was physically waged – researched through the mediums of documentary evidence and weaponry.
