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• An Acropolis is any citadel or complex built on a high hill. The name derives from the Greek akro, "high" or "extreme/extremity" or "edge", and polis, "city", translated as "high city", "city on the edge" or "city in the air", the most famous being the Acropolis of Athens, Greece, built in the 5th century BCE. Though the word is Greek in origin, i...
• Mycenaean Acropolis THE ACROPOLIS SERVED THE SAME PURPOSE FOR THE MYCENAEANS AS IT WOULD LATER AS THE RESIDENCE OF THE KING, STOREHOUSE, & TREASURY. Evidence of human habitation on the Athenian Acropolis dates to the Neolithic Period but the development of the site and the surrounding area begins with the Mycenean Civilization (c. 1700-1100 BCE). T...
• Evidence of human habitation on the Athenian Acropolis dates to the Neolithic Period but the development of the site and the surrounding area begins with the Mycenean Civilization (c. 1700-1100 BCE). The Acropolis rises 490 feet (150 m) above the surrounding area that would become Athens and has a surface area of approximately 7 acres (3 ha) and so...
• The king of a Mycenaean community was simultaneously the political and religious leader of his people and the CEO of a commercial enterprise. The palace complex, though nowhere near the scale of the Minoan palaces on Crete, contained rooms for the storage and inventorying of goods as well as rooms for bathing and dining and audiences with the king....
• The Acropolis, then, served the same purpose for the Mycenaeans as it would later in the Archaic Period (8th century - c. 480 BCE) as the residence of the king, storehouse, and treasury. It was also the site of at least one temple to a female deity (possibly Athena) which featured a sacrificial well or pit offerings were thrown into. The Mycenaean ...

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