Lesson 21 Bibliography: Mycenaean Public and Funerary Architecture: Fortifications, Drainage Projects, Roads, and Chamber Tombs

[Updated March 2008]

Colloquia, Symposia, and Festschriften

K. Branigan (ed.), Urbanism in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 4] (Sheffield 2001).

A. Dakouri-Hild and S. Sherratt (eds.), AUTHOCHTHON: Papers Presented to O. T. P. K. Dickinson on the Occasion of His Retirement [BAR International Series 1432] (Oxford 2005).

P. Darcque and J-C. Poursat (eds.), L'iconographie minoenne [BCH Supplement 11] (Paris 1985).

P. Darcque and R. Treuil (eds.), L'habitat égéen préhistorique [BCH Supplement 19] (Paris 1990).

E. De Miro, L. Godart, and A. Sacconi (eds.), Atti e memorie del secondo congresso internazionale di micenologia [Incunabula Graeca 98] (Rome 1996).

R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and Reality (Stockholm 1984).

R. Hägg and G. C. Nordquist (eds.), Celebrations of Death and Divinity in the Bronze Age Argolid (Stockholm 1990).

R. Laffineur (ed.), Thanatos. Les coutûmes funéraires en Égée à l'âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 1] (Liìge 1987).

R. Laffineur (ed.), Transition. Le monde égéen du Bronze moyen au Bronze récent [Aegaeum 3] (Liìge 1989).

J. Maran, C. Juwig, H. Schwengel, and U. Thaler (eds.), Constructing Power: Architecture and Social Practice (Hamburg 2006).

H periphereia tou mykenaïkou kosmou [A' Diethnes Diepistemoniko Symposio, Lamia, 25-29 Septembriou 1994] (Lamia 1999).

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Synthetic Treatments and General Overviews

W. Cavanagh and C. Mee, A Private Place: Death in Prehistoric Greece [SIMA 125] (Jonsered 1998).

K. Lewartowski, Late Helladic Simple Graves: A Study of Mycenaean Burial Customs [BAR International Series S878] (Oxford 2000).

J. Maran, “Mycenaean Citadels as Performative Space,” in J. Maran, C. Juwig, H. Schwengel, and U. Thaler (eds.), Constructing Power: Architecture and Social Practice (Hamburg 2006) 75-91.

G. E. Mylonas, Mycenae and the Mycenaean Age (Princeton 1966) 11-45, 86-88, 111-118.

C. W. Shelmerdine, "Review of Aegean Prehistory VI: The Palatial Bronze Age of the Southern and Central Greek Mainland," AJA 101(1997) 537-585.

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Building Materials, Techniques of Construction, and Conceptualizations of Space

W. Cavanagh, “Empty Space? Courts and Squares in Mycenaean Towns,” in K. Branigan (ed.), Urbanism in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 4] (Sheffield 2001) 119-134.

P. Darcque, L’habitat mycénien: Formes et fonctions de l’espace bâti en Grèce continentale à la fin du IIe millénaire avant J.-C. [BEFAR 319] (Paris 2005).

M. Küpper, Mykenische Architektur: Material, Bearbeitungstechnik, Konstruktion und Erscheinungsbild (Espelkamp 1996).

M. C. Nelson, The Architecture of Epano Englianos, Greece (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto 2001).

J. C. Wright, Mycenaean Masonry Practices and Elements of Construction (Ph.D. dissertation, Bryn Mawr 1978).

E. Yannouli, Reason in Architecture: The Component of Space. A Study of Domestic and Palatial Buildings in Bronze Age Greece (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cambridge 1992).

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Mycenaean Tombs and Cemeteries

P. Agallopoulou, "Mykenaïkon nekrotapheion para to Kambi Zakynthou," AD 28A(1973) 198- .

M. E. Alberti, “Weighting and Dying between East and West: Weighing Materials from LBA Aegean Funerary Contexts,” in K. P. Foster and R. Laffineur (eds.), METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 24] (Liège/Austin 2003) 277-284.

K. Anastassiou-Alexopoulou, E systada taphon tou Gymnasiou kai e mykenaïke Salamina (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Athens 1990).

P. Åström, "Das Panzergrab von Dendra. Bauweise und Keramik," AM 82(1967) 54- .

P. Åström, The Cuirass Tomb and Other Finds at Dendra 1: The Chamber Tombs [SIMA 4] (Götebog 1977).

A. Batsiou-Efstathiou, "To nekrotapheio tes Neas Ionias (Volou) kata te metabase apo ten YE IIIC sten PG epoche," in H periphereia tou mykenaïkou kosmou [A' Diethnes Diepistemoniko Symposio, Lamia, 25-29 Septembriou 1994] (Lamia 1999) 117-130.

M. Benzi, Rodi e la Civiltà Micenea (Rome 1992).

C. W. Blegen, Prosymna, the Helladic Settlement Preceding the Argive Heraeum (Cambridge 1937).

M. J. Boyd, "The Middle and Late Bronze Age in Messenia," Archaeo 1(1993) 11-24.

J. McK. Camp II, “Excavations in the Athenian Agora: 1998-2001,” Hesperia 72(2003) 241-280, esp. 254-273.

W. Cavanagh and C. Mee, A Private Place: Death in Prehistoric Greece [SIMA 125] (Jonsered 1998) 41-102.

S. I. Charitonides, "Duo mykenaïkoi taphoi en to chorio Priphtiani para tas Mykenas," AE (1952) Parartema 19- .

A. Choremis, "Mykenaïkoi kai protogeometrikoi taphoi eis ten Karpophoran Messenias," AE (1973) 49-60.

K. Demakopoulou, "Mykenaïkon nekrotapheion Melathrias Lakonias," AE (1977) 29-60.

K. A. Demakopoulou and J. H. Crouwel, "Some Mycenaean Tombs at Palaiokastro, Arcadia," BSA 93(1998) 269-283.

J. Deshayes, Argos. Les fouilles de la Deiras (Paris 1966).

O. T. P. K. Dickinson, "Cist Graves and Chamber Tombs," BSA 78(1983) 55-67.

B. Eder, "Ancient Elis in the Dark Ages," in H periphereia tou mykenaïkou kosmou [A' Diethnes Diepistemoniko Symposio, Lamia, 25-29 Septembriou 1994] (Lamia 1999) 263-268.

A. Grammenou, "The Mycenaean Chamber Tombs at Spata in Attica: New Research on an Excavation of 1877," BICS 41(1996) 140-141.

V. Hankey, "Late Helladic Tombs at Chalkis," BSA 47(1952) 49- .

S. Iakovidis, "Peri tou schematos ton laxeuton tapphon eis ta Volimidia Messenias," in Charisterion eis Anastasion Orlandon B' (Athens 1965-66) 99-111.

S. Iakovidis, Perati. To Nekrotapheion I-III (Athens 1969-1970).

S. A. Immerwahr, The Athenian Agora XIII: the Neolithic and Bronze Age (Princeton 1971).

G. Jacopi, "Nuovi scavi nella necropoli micenea di Jalisso," Annuario 13-14(1930-31) 253-345.

K. Kalogeropoulos, "The Mycenaean Cemetery of Analipsis in Arcadia," in E. De Miro, L. Godart, and A. Sacconi (eds.), Atti e memorie del secondo congresso internazionale di micenologia [Incunabula Graeca 98] (Rome 1996) III: 1205-1209.

K. Kalogeropoulos, Die frühmykenischen Grabfunde von Analipsis (Südostliches Arkadien) mit einem Beitrag zu den Palatialen Amphoren des griechischen Festlandes [Archaiologike Etaireia Athenon 175] (Athens 1998).

E. Karantzali, "Neoi mykenaïko taphoi Rodou," in H periphereia tou mykenaïkou kosmou [A' Diethnes Diepistemoniko Symposio, Lamia, 25-29 Septembriou 1994] (Lamia 1999) 285-300.

E. Karantzali, The Mycenaean Cemetery at Pylona on Rhodes [BAR International Series 988] (Oxford 2001).

A. Keramopoullos, "Mykenaïkoi taphoi en Aigine kai en Thebais," AE (1910) 177--252.

A. Keramopoullos, "Thebaïka," AD 3(1917) 1-503.

N. Kokkotake, “Thalamoeides mykenaïkos taphos sto Alpochori Eleias,” in A. D. Rizakis (ed.), Archaia Achaïa kai Eleia/Achaia und Elis in der Antike (Athens 1991) 39-44.

E. Konsolaki-Yiannopoulou, “Taphes nepion sto mykenaïko iero tou Agiou Konstantinou sta Methana,” in E. Konsolaki-Yiannopoulou (ed.), Argosaronikos: Praktika 1ou Diethnous Synedriou Istorias kai Archaiologias touj Argosaronikou (Athens 2003) 257-284.

L. Kontorli-Papadopoulou, "Some Aspects Concerning Local Peculiarities of the Mycenaean Chamber Tombs," in R. Laffineur (ed.), Thanatos. Les coutûmes funéraires en Égée à l'âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 1] (Liìge 1987) 145-160.

M. Koumouzelis, "A Monumental Chamber Tomb at Ellinika, Messenia," in E. De Miro, L. Godart, and A. Sacconi (eds.), Atti e memorie del secondo congresso internazionale di micenologia [Incunabula Graeca 98] (Rome 1996) III: 1221-1228.

A. Maiuri, "Jalisos. La necropoli micenea," Annuario 6-7(1923-24) 86-247.

S. Marinatos, "Ai anaskaphai Goekoop en Kephallenia," AE (1932) 1-47.

S. Marinatos, "Ai en Kephallenia anaskaphai Goekoop," AE (1933) 68-100.

C. Mee, Rhodes in the Bronze Age (Warminster 1982).

L. Morricone,"Eleona e Langada: sepolcreti della Tarda Età del Bronzo a Coo," Annuario 27-28(1965-66) 5-317.

I. Moschos, “Prehistoric Tumuli at Portes in Achaea. First Preliminary Report,” Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens 3(2000) 9-49.

P. A. Mountjoy, Mycenaean Athens [SIMA Pocketbook 127] (Jonsered 1995).

S. Müller, Les tombes mycéniennes de Médéon de Phocide: Architecture et mobilier (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Lyon II 1995).

S. Müller, "Idiomorphies sten taphike architecktonike tou Medeona Phokidas," in H periphereia tou mykenaïkou kosmou [A' Diethnes Diepistemoniko Symposio, Lamia, 25-29 Septembriou 1994] (Lamia 1999) 223-234.

G. E. Mylonas, To dytikon nekrotapheion tes Eleusinos (Athens 1976).

E. Nikolaou, "Paidikes taphes 'intra mjuros' tes eschates Chalkokratias apo ton Kyno tes anatolikes Lokridas," in H periphereia tou mykenaïkou kosmou [A' Diethnes
Diepistemoniko Symposio, Lamia, 25-29 Septembriou 1994] (Lamia 1999) 153-156.

M. A. Pantelidou, Ai Proïstorikai Athenai (Athens 1975).

N. Papadimitriou, Built Chamber Tombs of Middle and Late Bronze Age Date in Mainland Greece and the Islands [BAR International Series S925] (Oxford 2001).

N. Papadimitriou, “T. 164 – An Early LH Built Chamber Tomb from Argos,” BSA 96(2001) 41-79.

A. Papadopoulos, Mycenaean Achaea I-II (Göteborg 1978-79).

T. J. Papadopoulos, "Warrior-Graves in Achaean Mycenaean Cemeteries," in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum
19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 267-274.

M.-Ph. Papakonstantinou, "Early Mycenaean Tumuli at Glypha in Phthiotis (Ancient Antron)," BICS 41(1996) 137-138.

M.-Ph. Papakonstantinou, "O taphikos kyklos A tes Andronas. Prote parousiase," in H periphereia tou mykenaïkou kosmou [A' Diethnes Diepistemoniko Symposio, Lamia, 25-29 Septembriou 1994] (Lamia 1999) 171-180.

L. Papazoglou-Manioudaki, "A Mycenaean Tomb at Krini near Patras," BSA 89(1994) 171-200.

L. Papazoglou-Manioudaki, "Pelina kai chalkina tes Proïmes Mykenaïkes epoches apo ten Achaïa," in H periphereia tou mykenaïkou kosmou [A' Diethnes Diepistemoniko Symposio, Lamia, 25-29 Septembriou 1994] (Lamia 1999) 269-283.

L. Parlama, "Thalamoeides taphos para to Agrapidhochori Eleias," AE Chronika (1971) 52-60.

L. Parlama, "Mykenaïka Eleias," AD 29A(1974) 25-59.

A. Persson, Royal Tombs at Dendra near Midea (Lund 1931).

A. Persson, New Tombs at Dendra near Midea (Lund 1942).

N. Polchronakou-Sgouritsa, "To mykenaïko nekrotapheio tes Varkizas/Vares," AD 43A(1988) 1- .

E. Protonotariou-Deïlaki, Oi tymboi tou Argous (Athens 1980).

E. Protonotariou-Deïlaki, “Mykenaïkos taphos ex Argous,” in Charisterion eis Anastasion K. Orlandon (Athens 1964) B´: 239-247.

W. Rudolph, "Die Nekropole am Prophitis Elias bei Tiryns," Tiryns VI (Mainz 1973) 23-126.

G. Säflund, Excavations at Berbati 1936-7 (Stockholm 1965).

K. S. Shelton, "Tsountas' Chamber Tombs at Mycenae," AE 132(1993) 187-210.

C. Souyoudzoglou-Haywood, The Ionian Islands in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age 3000 - 800 B.C. (Liverpool 1999).

T. G. Spyropoulos, "Pellana: the Administrative Center of Prehistoric Laconia," in W. G. Cavanagh and S. E. C. Walker (eds.), Sparta in Laconia [BSA Studies 4] (London 1998) 28-38.

S. Symeonoglou, The Topography of Thebes from the Bronze Age to Modern Times (Princeton 1985).

D. and M. Theochares, "Ek tou nekrotapheiou tes Iolkou," AAA 3(1970) 198- .

E. Vermeule and J. Travlos, "A Mycenaean Tomb beneath the Middle Stoa," Hesperia 35(1966) 55-78.

O. Vikatou, "To mykenaïko nekrotapheio tes Agias Triadas N. Eleias," in H periphereia tou mykenaïkou kosmou [A' Diethnes Diepistemoniko Symposio, Lamia, 25-29 Septembriou 1994] (Lamia 1999) 237-256.

A. J. B. Wace, Chamber Tombs at Mycenae [Archaeologia 82] (Oxford 1932).

A. Xenake-Sakellariou, Oi thalamotoi taphoi ton Mykenon Anaskaphes Chr. Tsounta (1887-1898) (Athens 1985).

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Mycenaean Burial Customs and Funerary Ideology

T. G. Antikas, “The Honor to be Buried with Horses from Mycenaean Nemea to Macedonian Vergina,” in A. Gardeisen (ed.), Les équides dans le monde méditerranéen antique (Lattes 2005) 143-151.

P. Åström, "Intentional Destruction of Grave Goods," in R. Laffineur (ed.), Thanatos. Les coutûmes funéraires en Égée à l'âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 1] (Liège 1987) 213- .

G. Bergonzi, "Bilance nelle tombe: Qualche considerazione su di un rituale funerario del Tardo Elladico," in E. De Miro, L. Godart, and A. Sacconi (eds.), Atti e memorie del secondo congresso internazionale di micenologia [Incunabula Graeca 98] (Rome 1996) III: 1531-1542.

W. G. Cavanagh, "A Mycenaean Second Burial Custom?," BICS 25(1978) 171-172.

W. Cavanagh, "Innovation, Conservatism and Variation in Mycenaean Funerary Ritual," in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 1] (Sheffield 1998) 103-114.

W. G. Cavanagh and C. Mee, "The Re-use of Earlier Tombs in the LH IIIC Period," BSA 73(1978) 31-44.

W. Cavanagh and C. Mee, A Private Place: Death in Prehistoric Greece [SIMA 125] (Jonsered 1998) 103-120.

M. Cultraro, “Il tipo di tomba ipogeica a grotticella artificiale in ambito egeo: Alcune osservazioni,” in L’ipogeismo nel Mediterraneo (Sassari 2000) 473-499.

C. Gallou, The Mycenaean Cult of the Dead [BAR International S1372] (Oxford 2005).

L. Girella, “Variabilità funeraria e mutazione di pratiche cerimoniali a distanza: il caso della necropolis micenea di Ialysos (Rodi),” PdP 323(2002) 121-156.

R. Hägg and F. Sieurin, "On the Origin of the Wooden Coffin in Late Bronze Age Greece," BSA 77(1982) 177-186.

Y. Hamilakis, "Eating the Dead: Mortuary Feasting and the Politics of Memory in Aegean Bronze Age Societies," in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 1] (Sheffield 1998) 115-132.

K. Lewartowski, Late Helladic Simple Graves: A Study of Mycenaean Burial Customs [BAR International Series S878] (Oxford 2000).

R. Laffineur, "Weitere Beiträge zur Symbolik im mykenischen Bestattungsritual," Kolloquium zur ägäischen Vorgeschichte, Mannheim 20.-22.2.1986 [Schriften des deutschen Archäologen-Verbandes 9] (1987) 125-132.

R. Laffineur, "Fécondité et pratiques funéraires en Égée à l'âge du Bronze," in Archaeology and Fertility Cult in the Ancient Mediterranean (Malta 1986) 83-88.

J. C. Van Leuven, "Tombs and Religion at Mycenaean Prosymna," JPR 8(1994) 42-61.

Y. G. Lolos, "Mycenaean Burial at Pylos," in J. L. Davis (ed.), Sandy Pylos. An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino (Austin 1998) 75-78.

N. Polychronakou-Sgouritsa, "Paidikes taphes ste mykenaïke Elllada," AD 42A(1987) 8- .

M. R. Popham and J. H. Musgrave, "The Late Helladic IIIC Intramural Burials at Lefkandi, Euboea," BSA 86(1991) 273-296.

Ch. Schoinas, "Eikonistike parastase se ostraka kratera apo ten Agia Triada Eleias," in H periphereia tou mykenaïkou kosmou [A' Diethnes Diepistemoniko Symposio, Lamia, 25-29 Septembriou 1994] (Lamia 1999) 257-262.

B. Wells, "Death at Dendra: On Mortuary Practices in a Mycenaean Community," in R. Hägg and G. C. Nordquist (eds.), Celebrations of Death and Divinity in the Bronze Age Argolid (Stockholm 1990) 125-140.

N. C. Wilkie, "Burial Customs at Nichoria. The MME Tholos," in R. Laffineur (ed.), Thanatos. Les coutûmes funéraires en Égée à l'âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 1] (Liège 1987) 127- .

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Implications of Mycenaean Burials for Demography, Political Organization, and Social Structure

M. J. Alden, Bronze Age Population Fluctuations in the Argolid from the Evidence of Mycenaean Tombs (Göteborg 1981).

M. J. Alden, Well Built Mycenae 7: Prehistoric Cemetery: Pre- Mycenaean and Early Mycenaean Graves (Oxford 2002).

W. G. Cavanagh, "Cluster Analysis of Mycenaean Chamber Tombs," in R. Laffineur (ed.), Thanatos. Les coutûmes funéraires en Égée à l'âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 1] (Liìge 1987) 161-169.

W. G. Cavanagh and C. Mee, "The Re-use of Earlier Tombs in the LH IIIC Period," BSA 73(1978) 31-44.

W. G. Cavanagh and C. Mee, "The Location of Mycenaean Chamber Tombs in the Argolid," in R. Hägg and G. C. Nordquist (eds.), Celebrations of Death and Divinity in the Bronze Age Argolid (Stockholm 1990) 55-64.

W. Cavanagh and C. Mee, A Private Place: Death in Prehistoric Greece [SIMA 125] (Jonsered 1998) 121-136.

C. Gates, "Rethinking the Building History of Grave Circle A at Mycenae," AJA 89(1985) 263-274.

C. Gillis, "The Asine Chamber Tombs - Graves of Kings?," in E. De Miro, L. Godart, and A. Sacconi (eds.), Atti e memorie del secondo congresso internazionale di micenologia [Incunabula Graeca 98] (Rome 1996) III: 1193-1203.

R. Laffineur, "Grave Circle A at Mycenae: Further Reflections on its History," in R. Hägg and G. C. Nordquist (eds.), Celebrations of Death and Divinity in the Bronze Age Argolid (Stockholm 1990) 201-206.

K. Lewartowski, "Mycenaean Social Structure: A View from Simple Graves," in R. Laffineur and W-D. Niemeier (eds.), Politeia: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liìge 1995) I: 103-113.

C. Mee, "Gender Bias in Mycenaean Mortuary Practices," in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 1] (Sheffield 1998) 165-171.

C. Mee and W. Cavanagh, "Mycenaean Tombs as Evidence for Social and Political Organization," OJA 3(1984) 45-64.

C. B. Mee and W. G. Cavanagh, "The Spatial Distribution of Mycenaean Tombs," BSA 85(1990) 225-243.

T. J. Papadopoulos, "Warrior-Graves in Achaean Mycenaean Cemeteries," in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 267-274.

S. Voutsaki, "Social and Political Processes in the Mycenaean Argolid: The Evidence from the Mortuary Practices," in R. Laffineur and W-D. Niemeier, Politeia: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liìge 1995) I: 55-66.

S. Voutsaki, "Mortuary Evidence, Symbolic Meanings and Social Change: A Comparison between Messenia and the Argolid in the Mycenaean Period," in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 1] (Sheffield 1998) 41-58.

J. C. Wright, "Death and Power at Mycenae: Changing Symbols in Mortuary Practice," in R. Laffineur (ed.), Thanatos. Les coutûmes funéraires en Égée à l'âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 1] (Liìge 1987) 171-184.

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Mycenaean Burials of Horses, Dogs, and Other Animals

J. Boessneck and A. von den Driesch, "Die zoologische Dokumentation der Reste von vier Pferden und einem Hund aus einem mykenischen Schachtgrab in Kokla bei Argos (Peloponnes)," Spixiana 7:3 (1984) 327-333.

Y. Hamilakis, "A Footnote on the Archaeology of Power: Animal Bones from a Mycenaean Chamber Tomb at Galatas, NE Peloponnese," BSA 91(1996) 153-166.

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Mycenaean Fortification Architecture

V. Aravantinos, "E mykenaïke ochyrose tes Kadmeias," Epeteris tes Etaireias Boitikon Meleton 1(1988) 113-136.

V. Aravantinos, "La fortificazione di Tebe. I risultati desgli scavi recenti sulla Cadmeia," Colloqui del Sodalizio tra studiosi dell'arte 9-10-11 (1991) 89-104.

P. Aström and B. Blomé, "A Reconstruction of the Lion Gate Relief at Mycenae," OpAth 5(1964) 159-191.

O. Broneer, "The Cyclopean Wall on the Isthmus of Corinth and its Bearing on Late Bronze Age Chronology," Hesperia 35(1966) 346-362.

O. Broneer, "The Cyclopean Wall on the Isthmus of Corinth, Addendum," Hesperia 37(1968) 25-35.

K. Demakopoulou, "Mycenaean Citadels: Recent Excavations on the Acropolis of Midea in the Argolid," BICS 40(1995) 151-176.

K. Demakopoulou and N. Divari-Valakou, "The Fortifications of the Mycenaean Acropolis of Midea," in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 205-215.

P. M. Fischer, "The Cyclopean Built Wall of the Mycenaean Citadel of Midea: A Survey Using Electronic Distance Measuring Equipment," JFA 13(1986) 499-503.

J. M. Fossey, "Mycenaean Fortifications of the Northeast Kopaïs," OpAth 13(1980) 155-162.

S. Hiller, "Das Löwentor von Mykene," Antike Welt 4(1973) 21-30.

R. Hope Simpson and D. K. Hagel, Mycenaean Fortifications, Highways, Dams and Canals [SIMA 133] (Sävedalen 2006).

S. Iakovides, E mykenaïke akropolis ton Athenon (Athens 1962).

S. Iakovides, "Vormykenische und mykenische Wehrbauten," Archaeologica Homerica (Göttingen 1977).

S. Iakovidis, Late Helladic Citadels on Mainland Greece (Leiden 1983).

S. Iakovidis, "Late Helladic Fortifications," in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 199-204.

S. E. Iakovidis, Glas I: E Anaskaphe 1955-1961 (Athens 1989).

Ch. Kardara, "E semasia tou anaglyphou tes pyles ton leonton," AAA 3(1970) 238-246.

Ch. Kardara, "The Isthmus Wall," AAA 4(1971) 85-89.

N. C. Loader, The Definition of Cyclopean: An Investigation into the Origins of the LH III Fortifications on Mainland Greece (Ph.D. dissertation; University of Durham 1995).

N. C. Loader, "A Possible East Sally-Port in the North-east Extension at Mycenae? A Brief Note," BSA 91(1996) 191-196.

N. C. Loader, Building in Cyclopean Masonry with Special Reference to the Mycenaean Fortifications on Mainland Greece [SIMA-PB 148] (Göteborg 1998).

J.Maran, “Architecktonische Innovation im spätmykenischen Tiryns – Lokale Bauprogramme und fremde Kultureinflüsse,” in Althellenische Technologie und Technik (Weilheim 2004) 261-288.

B. E. McConnell, "Fortifications of the Lake Kopaïs Drainage Works," Dartmouth Classical Journal 11(1978-79) 73-103.

P. A. Mountjoy, Mycenaean Athens [SIMA Pocketbook 127] (Jonsered 1995).

M. A. Pantelidou, Ai Proïstorikai Athenai (Athens 1975).

J. K. Papadopoulos, G. M. Cross, R. E. Jones, and L. Sharpe, "The Prehistoric Fortifications of Torone," in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 163-170.

E. Protonotariou-Deïlaki, "Peri tes pyles ton Mykenon," AE (1965) 7-26.

B. Santillo Frizell, "Giants or Geniuses? Monumental Building at Mycenae," Current Swedish Archaeology 6(1998) 167-184.

E. Schofield, "Water Supplies and Town Planning: A View from the Cyclades," BICS 40(1995) 249-250.

N. C. Scoufopoulos, Mycenaean Citadels (Göteborg 1971).

M. C. Shaw, "The Lion Gate Relief at Mycenae Reconsidered," in Philia Epe eis Georgion E. Mylonas (Athens 1986) 108-123.

S. Symeonoglou, The Topography of Thebes from the Bronze Age to Modern Times (Princeton 1985).

J. C. Wright, "The Mycenaean Entrance System at the West End of the Acropolis of Athens," Hesperia 63(1994) 323-360.

J. C. Wright, “Offsets in Mycenaean Architecture,” in A. Dakouri-Hild and S. Sherratt (eds.), AUTHOCHTHON: Papers Presented to O. T. P. K. Dickinson on the Occasion of His Retirement [BAR International Series 1432] (Oxford 2005) 191-199.

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Mycenaean Hydraulic Engineering Projects

H. Allen, "The Environmental Conditions of the Kopaïs Basin, Boeotia during the Post Glacial with Special Reference to the Mycenaean Period," in J. Bintliff (ed.), Recent Developments in the History and Archaeology of Central Greece [BAR International Series 666] (Oxford 1997) 39-58.

J. M. Balcer, "The Mycenaean Dam at Tiryns," AJA 78(1974) 141-149.

M. Biernacka-Lubanska, "The Water Supply of the Mycenaean Citadels and its Relations with the Near East," in J. Best and N. De Vries (eds.), Interaction and Acculturation in the Mediterranean (1980) 181-189.

O. Broneer, "A Mycenaean Fountain on the Athenian Acropolis," Hesperia 8(1939) 317-433.

E. A. W. Finke, Landscape Evolution of the Argive Plain, Greece: Paleoecology, Holocene Depositional History, and Coastline Changes (Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University 1988).

J. M. Fossey, "The End of the Bronze Age in the South West Kopais," Euphrosyne 6(1973-74) 7-21.

R. Hope Simpson and D. K. Hagel, Mycenaean Fortifications, Highways, Dams and Canals [SIMA 133] (Sävedalen 2006).

S. E. Iakovidis, "Gla, Orchomène et l'assêchement mycénien du Kopaïs," Atti dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Classe di Scienze Morali, Soriche e Filologiche: Rendiconti Ser. IX, vol. 9:2 (Rome 1998) 281-308.

S. E. Iakovidis, Gla and the Kopais in the 13th Century B.C. [Library of the Archaeological Society at Athens 221] (Athens 2001).

H. Kalcyk, B. Heinrich, and J. Knauss, "Die Melioration des Kopaisbeckens in Böotien," Antike Welt 17:2(1986) 15-38.

M. L. Kambanis, "Le dessìchement du Lac Copais par les anciens," BCH 16(1892) 121-137 and 17(1893) 322-342.

E. J. A. Kenny, "The Ancient Drainage of the Copaïs," Liverpool Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology 22(1935) 189-206.

J. Knauss, “Der Damm im Takka-See beim altern Tegea (Arkadien, Peloponnes),” AM 103(1988) 25-36.

J. Knauss, "Die Wasserbau-Kultur der Minyer in der Kopais (ein Rekonstruktionsversuch," in H. Beister and J. Buckler (eds.), Boiotika. Vorträge vom 5. internationalen Böotien-Kolloquium zu Ehren von Professor Dr. Siegfried Lauffer (Munich 1989) 269-274.

J. Knauss, “Mykenische Wasserbauten in Arkadien, Böotien, und Thessalien – mutmassliche Zielsetzung und rekonstruierbare Wirkungsweise,” in Akten Kongress Wasser (Berlin 1989) 31-70.

J. Knauss, “Der Graben des Herakles im Becken von Pheneos und die Vertreibung der stymphalischen Vogel,” AM 105(1990) 1-33.

J. Knauss, "Die Flussumleitung von Tiryns. Ergebnisse einer ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Nachuntersuchung," AM 110(1995) 43-81.

J. Knauss, "Arkadian and Boiotian Orchomenos, Centres of Mycenaean Hydraulic Engineering," in E. De Miro, L. Godart, and A. Sacconi (eds.), Atti e memorie del secondo congresso internazionale di micenologia [Incunabula Graeca 98] (Rome 1996) III: 1211-1219.

J. Knauss, B. Heinrich, H. Kalcyk, Die Wasserbauten der Minyer in der Kopais: Die älteste Flussregulierung Europas (Munich 1984).

J. Knauss, B. Heinrich, H. Kalcyk, “Der Damm bei Kaphyai und Orchomenos in Arkadien,” Antike Welt (1986) 583-611.

C. A. Salowey, "Herakles and the Waterworks: Mycenaean Dams, Classical Fountains, Roman Aqueducts," in K. A. Sheedy (ed.), Archaeology in the Peloponnese (Oxford 1994) 77-94.

T. Smith, Water Management in the Late Bronze Age Argolid, Greece (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cincinnati 1995).

E. Zangger, "Tiryns Unterstadt," in E. Pernicka and G. Wagner (eds.), Archaeometry '90 (Basel 1991) 831-840.

E. Zangger, "Landscape Changes around Tiryns during the Bronze Age," AJA 98(1994) 189-212.

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Mycenaean Harbors and Ports

W. A. Heurtley, "Notes on Harbours of South Boeotia and Sea-trade between Boeotia and Corinth in Prehistoric Times," BSA 26(1923-25) 30-45.

E. Zangger, "The Port of Nestor," in J. L. Davis (ed.), Sandy Pylos. An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino (Austin 1998) 69-74.

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Mycenaean Roads and Wheeled Vehicles

W. Cavanagh, “Recent References to Bronze Age Roads in the Aegean,” in K. Branigan (ed.), Urbanism in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 4] (Sheffield 2001) 180-181.

J. Crouwel, Chariots and Other Means of Land Transport in Bronze Age Greece [Allard Pierson Series 3] (Amsterdam 1981).

E. Gibson, “The Archaeology of Movement in a Mediterranean Landscape,” JMA 20(2007) 61-87.

H. E. Giesecke, "Der mykenische Wagen," Talanta 20-21(1988-89) .

R. Hope Simpson, Mycenaean Greece (Park Ridge 1981) 15-17, 21-23, 27, 59-69, 81, 143.

R. Hope Simpson, "The Mycenaean Highways," Classical Views/Echos du monde antique 42(1998)239-260.

R. Hope Simpson, “The Mycenae Roads and Mycenaean Chariots,” Mouseion 2:2(2002) 125-133.

R. Hope Simpson and D. K. Hagel, Mycenaean Fortifications, Highways, Dams and Canals [SIMA 133] (Sävedalen 2006).

A. Jansen, Stations along the Road in the Area of Mycenae: An Analysis of the Mycenaean Road System and its Relation to the Mycenaean State (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania 1994).

A. Jansen, "Bronze Age Highways at Mycenae," Echos du monde classique 41(1997) 1-16.

A. G. Jansen, A Study of the Remains of Mycenaean Roads and Stations of Bronze-Age Greece [Mellen Studies in Archaeology 1] (Lewiston/Lampeter 2001).

C. P. Kardara, “The Isthmian Wall (A retaining Wall for a Road?),” AAA 4(1971) 85-89.

E. W. Kase, “Mycenaean Roads in Phocis,” AJA 77(1973) 74-77.

E. W. Kase, A Surface Exploration in Search of Mycenaean Roads in Nomos Fokhidhos and Nomos Phthiotidhos (Ph.D. dissertation, Loyola University of Chicago 1973).

E. W. Kase et al. (eds.), The Great Isthmus Corridor Route: Explorations of the Phokis-Doris Expedition 1 (Dubuque 1991).

E. Krigas, "Amota and Rota. Road Transport in Mycenaean Arcadia," Kadmos 26(1987) 74-83.

M. K. Langdon, "A Cyclopean Bridge and Rutted Road in the Thriasian Plain," SMEA 34(1994) 51-60.

J. Lavery, "Some Aspects of Mycenaean Topography," BICS 37(1990) 165-171.

J. Lavery, "Some 'New' Mycenaean Roads at Mycenae: Euruaguia Mykene," BICS 40(1995) 264-265.

M. H. Levin, “The Roads to Gla,” The Pennsylvania Gazette 80, 2(1981) 25-29.

W. A. McDonald, "Overland Communications in Greece during LH III, with Special Reference to the Southwest Peloponnese," in E. L. Bennett (ed.), Mycenaean Studies (Madison 1964) 217-240.

T. G. Spyropoulos, "Pellana: the Administrative Center of Prehistoric Laconia," in W. G. Cavanagh and S. E. C. Walker (eds.), Sparta in Laconia [BSA Studies 4] (London 1998) 28-38.

B. Wells, “Trade Routes in North-east Argolis,” Hydra 7(1990) 87-91.

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