The main city of a loose confederation of grecian kingdoms. According to legend, the high seat of Agamemnon, the blood-thirsty king who led the Greek army against Troy.   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…Keep Reading