单词 | mycenaean |
释义 | Mycenaeann.adj. Ancient History. A. n. 1. A native or inhabitant of the ancient Greek city of Mycenae. In later use also: a member of a Bronze Age culture centred on Mycenae (see note at sense B.). ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of ancient cities or states > [noun] MedeeOE PartheOE PuniceOE NineviteOE Trojanc1330 sodomitea1382 Phoeniciana1387 Macedonianc1400 Parthianc1400 Macedonc1440 Phrygian?1473 Mycenaeanc1487 Tyrian1513 Sidonian?1520 Galatian1526 Canaanite1530 Cananaean1534 Milesian1550 Sogdian1553 Syrophœnician1560 Molossian1563 Hyrcanian1567 Palmyrene1567 Pergamenian1579 Smyrnian1579 Mysian1581 Carthaginian1592 Punican1595 Lycian1598 Smyrnaean1598 Phocaean1600 Gallo-greeks1601 Iberian1601 Minaean1601 Susian1601 Cappadocian1607 Carian1607 Paphlagonian1607 Hamathite1611 Pergamene1612 Byzantiana1620 Gallo-graecians1619 Chalcidian1654 Philadelphiana1680 Xanthian1685 Palmyrenian1697 Isaurian1776 Dardan1813 Byzantine1836 Bœotian1839 Ilian1847 Susianian1874 Libyo-Phœnician1876 Khaldian1882 Mitannian1907 Iconian1911 Petraean1923 Lycaonian1926 c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica v. 371 This lyon..resortyd moche emonge the Micenyens, bitwene theym and the grete wode callyd Nemea. ?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads ii. 27 (note) Their fleet 80. saile. The Myceneans. Their townes. 1649 C. Wase tr. Sophocles Electra 56 Silence I will you, and the Gates unfold, That Argives and Mycenians may behold. 1684 E. Browne tr. Plutarch Lives III. 632 Diodorus..brought the greatest part of Africa under his Subjection, with an Army of Greeks, which he raised out of the Colonies of the Olbianians and Myceneans placed here by Hercules. 1737 R. Glover Leonidas iv. 116 The Grecians advance to the broadest part of Thermopylæ, where they form a line of thirty in depth, consisting of the Platæans, Mantinéans, Tegæans, Thebans, Corinthians, Phliasians, and Mycenæans. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 562/2 The Mycenæans, sending 80 men, partook with the Lacedæmonians in the glory acquired at Thermopylæ. 1878 Appletons' Jrnl. Jan.–Feb. 153/2 Perseus..killed the famous sea-dragon..which had a perpetual grudge against the Mycenæans, who mollified him by giving him a daily meal of little girls. 1903 H. R. Hall in Ann. Brit. School Athens 1901–2 8 165 Apparently Müller regarded the Keftiu not as themselves genuine Mycenaeans, but as mere handers on of Mycenaean objects. 1989 J. P. Mallory In Search of Indo-Europeans iii. 69 It is also clear that we cannot follow the trail of Greek origins on Crete but must look to southern Greece and the origins of the Mycenaeans. 2. The dialect of Greek represented by the Linear B tablets found at Mycenae. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Greek > Greek dialects common dialect1604 Aeolic1606 Ionic1606 Ionic dialect1629 Athenian1638 Theban1820 Laconian1830 Doric1837 Rumelian1859 Pamphylian1880 Tsakonian1902 Pontic1910 Thessalian1910 koine1913 Messenian1928 Macedonian1933 Mycenaean1955 1955 J. Chadwick in Trans. Philol. Soc. 1 (title) Mycenaean: a newly discovered Greek dialect. 1956 M. Ventris & J. Chadwick Documents in Mycenaean Greek i. iii. 74 There seems as yet to be little certain indication which dissociates Mycenaean from the Aeolic group. 1965 Language 41 314 Antonio Tovar..comes out..against the Porzig–Risch thesis that Mycenaean represents a form of ‘Southern Greek’. 1996 Oxf. Classical Dict. (ed. 3) 1015/2 Since these dialects are in some respects more archaic than Mycenaean, it follows that their ancestor must already have been in existence. B. adj. Of, relating to, or associated with Mycenae, esp. with reference to its position as a centre of civilization in the late Bronze Age, reaching its height in the 13th cent. b.c., and as a royal capital of archaeological importance.The word and its cognates in other European languages originally referred exclusively to inhabitants of or things associated with the city of Mycenae. After Heinrich Schliemann's rich archaeological finds at the site, beginning in 1876, it came to be used to designate Bronze Age culture in Greece and the Aegean generally, but was subsequently restricted in scholarly use to the late Bronze Age of mainland Greece. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Greece > ancient cities Thebanc1374 Pylian1590 Argive1598 Mantinean1598 Mytilenean1724 Tegean1767 Mycenaean1842 1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades iii. 51 The king himselfe that rules the rich Micenian land. 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xv. 770 Thus from the Rage of Jove-like Hector, flew All Greece in Heaps; but one he seiz'd, and slew. Mycenian Periphes, a mighty Name, In Wisdom great, in Arms well known to Fame. 1750 A. Hill tr. Voltaire Merope (ed. 2) iii. i. 28 My Eyes last Object on Mycenian Earth, Was thy dear Life and Empire lost in Blood. a1777 F. Fawkes tr. Apollonius Rhodius Argonautics (1780) i. 10 For warn'd of this adventurous band, when last The chief to Argos from Arcadia past.., Unask'd the stern Mycenian king's consent, Instant to join the warlike host he went. 1842 W. Mure Tour in Greece II. 167 The Mycenæan structure [sc. the Treasury of Atreus] has..the advantage of being in a nearly perfect state of preservation. 1896 Nat. Sci. Dec. 353 Mycenæan culture was permeated by Oriental elements. 1930 R. V. D. Magoffin & E. D. Davis Romance of Archaeol. ii. 31 Mycenaean civilization could now be seen to be the mainland exotic of which Minoan island civilization had been the stem and the flower. 1972 M. Magnusson Introducing Archaeol. iii. 34 Schliemann was convinced he had found the graves of Homer's Mycenean royal family, the graves of murdered Agamemnon and his companions. 1988 Oxf. Illustr. Encycl. III. 233/1 Mycenaean invaders may have taken over Knossos c1450 [ bc]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c1487 |
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