| 单词 | Mycenæan |
| 释义 | Mycenæan, a. and n.|maɪsɪˈniːən|
[f. L. Mycēnæ-us (f. Mycēnæ) + -an.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to Mycenæ, an ancient Greek city in the Argive plain, and esp. the kind of civilization, culture, or art of which it was the centre.
B. n. A native or inhabitant of Mycenæ. Also, the language used by the Greeks of the Mycenæan Age.
[1598Chapman Iliad vii. 157 The king himself that rules the rich Mycenian land.] 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XII. 562/2 The Mycenæans, sending 80 men, partook with the Lacedæmonians in the glory acquired at Thermopylæ. 1842Mure 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. 1896Nat. Sci. Dec. 353 Mycenæan culture was permeated by Oriental elements. 1930Magoffin & 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. 1956Ventris & Chadwick Documents in Mycenaean Gk. i. iii. 74 There seems as yet to be little certain indication which dissociates Mycenaean from the Aeolic group. 1958J. Chadwick Decipherment of Linear B v. 73 The name Mycenaean, originally a label for the culture of the Greek mainland in the Late Helladic period, is now generally extended to the Linear B script and the dialect it contains. 1965Language XLI. 314 Antonio Tovar..comes out..against the Porzig–Risch thesis that Mycenaean represents a form of ‘Southern Greek’. 1968Encycl. Brit. XXII. 975/2 The dialect (conventionally known as Mycenaean) is the oldest Greek known and belongs to the Achaean subdivision. 1968P. Martin tr. Pallottino's Meaning of Archaeol. 160 The people of the Mycenaean civilization..were neither more nor less than the forebears of the Greeks of history. 1971L. A. Boger Dict. World Pottery & Porcelain 235/2 The style of painting on the early Mycenaean vases is almost exactly like Minoan Floral and Marine styles. 1972M. 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. |
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