Role in Mythology: Electryon became the king of Mycenae and played a key role in the genealogy of Greek heroes.
When the center was Delos,Thebes and Izmir lay on the circumference; when the center was Paros, it was Knossos andChalcis; when the center was Sparta, Mycenae and the oracle site of Trofonion were on thecircumference.
Maurice Chatelain, who made a detailed mathematical study of ancient sites and legends, wrote, “Personally I am convinced that the story of Atlantis, as Solon heard it from Sonchis and as Plato has given it to us, is true from beginning to end and that someday the ruins of Atlantis will be found, just as one after another we found the once legendary Troy, Mycenae, Tiryns, and Knossos.”
"An inscription which I excavated at the Lion Gate at Mycenae in Crete recites that Misor, from whom, according to the inscription, the Egyptians were descended, was the child of Taaut or Thoth, the God of History, and that Taaut was the emigrated son of a 'priest of Atlantis, who having fallen in love with a daughter of King Chronos, escaped and landed after many wanderings in Egypt.' He built the first temple at Sais and there taught the wisdom of his native land.
I pass, for lack of space, over the hieroglyphics and other evidences which I have discovered that show that the civilizations of Egypt, of Mycenae, of Central America, South America and the Mediterranean had a common origin.
After telling of the inscription which he had found in the Dome Tombs of Mycenae, he continued:
A dispute with the Turkish Government over the Treasure stopped his Hissarlik work, and he turned his attention to Mycenae, on the Island of Crete, the historic capital of Agamemnon of the Iliad.
He was the king of Mycenae (or Argos) and the leader of the Greek forces during the Trojan War.
Royal lineage: Agamemnon was the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope, and the brother of Menelaus, whose wife, Helen, was abducted by Paris of Troy, leading to the Trojan War.
The Citadel of Mycenae, located in Greece, dates back to around 1,250 BCE.
Mycenae was a major center of Greek civilization during the late Bronze Age and is often associated with the legendary King Agamemnon from Homer's epics.
Examples include Mykene in Mycenae and Thebe in Thebes.
The forces of King Agamemnon himself included a hundred ships from Mycenae and its territories.