Strabo was a Greek historian and geographer and in the introduction of his book on the geography of ancient Greece, he introduces the idea that when writing historical accounts, philosophical biases and disjointed or false narratives should be omitted, which gives the impression that his record is accurate and trustworthy. When describing Mycenae, he confirms the extent of Agamemnon’s influence over Mycenaean Greece by discussing Mycenae’s rise as a result of conquering the Pelohpidae, Laconia, Corinth, and Sicyon. An interesting statement that Strabo makes is that after the collapse of Mycenae, “not even a trace of the city of the Mycenaeans is to be found”. This is confounding in the sense that archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann was able to identify the Lion Gate described by Pausanias in his description of Greece.…show more content… A main idea that Herodotus conveys in his histories is the great influence that Mycenae had on Greece’s development, even after its collapse. When writing of the time period almost eight centuries after the Mycenaean Age and describing the Greek army, he continues to identify a group of people as Mycenaeans, although that society had been long destroyed. This shows how the legacy of Mycenaean culture was able to survive the war and that key features of Mycenaean society were incorporated in future communities. Mycenae was the center of the several territories that Agamemnon had control over, which is characteristic of a city state, which became popular in
