The Heroic Age of Ancient Greece: The Rise of the Mycenaean Greeks

The Greeks of the mainland were once the cultural understudies of the Minoans. But in short order the Mycenaean Greeks, having absorbed what they could from the Minoans, conquered Crete.

The Greeks, whose wealth is attested by their grave goods, began raiding neighbors' lands. The entire eastern Mediterranean was plunged into chaos in this Time of Troubles. A lecture by Dr. W. J.

Neidinger.