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English
Adjective
Mycenæan (not comparable)
- Dated form of Mycenaean.
1913, Writings on American History, volume I, page 27:In this task it is necessary for him to discard a multitude of theories proposed by the archæologists themselves, affecting the relation of culture to race, the character of migrations, the causes of the decline of the Mycenæan civilization, and many kindred subjects, and to seek guidance in the actual experiences of history. In view of the fact that the cultural indebtedness of historical Greece to the Mycenæan (Minoan) Age is demonstrably enormous, it is necessary in the case of any early Greek institution or condition which seems to be the product of a more highly developed or of a non‐Hellenic civilization, to consider at least the possibility of deriving it from Mycenæan sources.
Noun
Mycenæan (plural Mycenæans)
- Dated spelling of Mycenaean.