Mycenae the Indefensible

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From early scholarship on the Bronze Age citadels to Michael Wood's documentary In Search of the Trojan War, the conceit about Mycenae has been that the citadel's Cyclopean walls and high position rendered the site unassailable.  But could that view be mistaken?  Could Mycenae's very geography have contributed to its undoing

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Thank-you!

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Thank you very much for your kind notice of my blog posts on the topic of Mycenaean defenses. I should emphasize that what I propose is hypothesis only; there's much we don't know about the Mycenaeans including some very basic things. And, in fairness, it wouldn't be possible to take Mycenae or Tiryns 'quite easily'. It would, after all, take an army. But if you did have an army it should be doable. My thoughts are more fully spelt out in the other posts since the beginning of the year. Now I must more fully familiarize myself with your fine blog,

best wishes,

Bob Consoli