Mycenae

Etymology
From, , the name of the Ancient Greek city, from , a nymph in Greek mythology who lived around Mycenae. .

Two traditional etymologies exist:
 * According to, , the legendary founder of the city, named it either after the cap of the sheath of his sword or after a mushroom he had plucked on the site (either way, the term would derive from Ancient Greek ).
 * connected the name to the abovementioned (or Mykene), daughter of, first King of Argos (, 2.120). Homer was not alone in identifying Inachus as a river god, and thus Mycene as a nymph.

Proper noun

 * 1) An ancient Greek city in the NE Peloponnesus on the plain of Argos, inhabited since about 4000
 * 2) * 1958, Alan John Bayard Wace, Elizabeth Bayard French, The Mycenae Tablets II,, page 1,
 * The excavators of Mycenae added in 1953 and 1954 important new materials to the small but excellent archives of Mycenae.
 * 1) * 1992 [Routledge],, From Mycenae to Constantinople, 2003, Taylor & Francis e-Library, page 31,
 * In 479 BC the citizen army of Mycenae marched to Plataea in Boeotia to join the other mainland Greek cities in inflicting the final defeat which terminated Xerxes' invasion of Greece.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: Μυκῆναι
 * Hawaiian: Mukānai
 * Hungarian: Mükéné
 * Italian: Micene
 * Lithuanian: Mikėnai
 * Macedonian: Мике́на
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Micenas
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: Mykene
 * Turkish: Miken

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Proper noun

 * 1) A city of Argolis and dwelling of the mythical king Agamemnon