Mycenae

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

MYCE´NAE a town in Crete, the foundation of which was attributed by an historian of the Augustan age (Vell. Paterc. 1.1) to Agamemnon.
Harduin ( ad Plin. 4.12) proposed to read Mycenae for MYRINA which is mentioned as a city of Crete in the text of Pliny (l. c.). Sieber ( Reise, vol. 2. p. 280) believed that he had discovered the remains of this city at a place called Macaor Masis, on the river Armyró. (Höck, Kreta, vol. 1. p. 435.)
[E.B.J]

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