#countryhumans mycenae

[sane-human]

Been Reading some stuff about Bronze Age Greece, I've drawn these guys :D The Cycladic culture was a Bronze Age culture (c. 3100–c. 1000 BC) found throughout the islands of the Cyclades in the Aegean Sea.

Being a Culture between islands I decided to make them dolphins , (the current national animal of Greece!) to make then swim around the islands !

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture (3100 – c. 1100 BC) which was centered on the island of Crete. (The History of the Minoans)

Decided to make them both a Minotaur and a Centaur!

Mycenaean civilization was the last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC. It represents the first advanced and distinctively Greek civilization in mainland Greece with its palatial states, urban organization, works of art, and writing system.

Kept them as a Cyclop for Cyclopean masonry: "...Pausanias attributes all of the fortifications of Tiryns and Mycenae, including the Lion Gate, to the Cyclopes..."

(Also made them bigger since they conquer the rest, The EPIC musical Cyclop saga hyped me)

[sane-human]

Here are some ancient city-states of Ancient Greece!

Mycenae was more in the center and where Olympia is! I made them a cyclop because in later years some walls that were built there will be tough to be built by cyclops! (Cyclopean style of architecture)

The Minoan civilization was mostly on the island on Crete, place where the famous legend of the minotaur took place, so I gave them some bull horns! (Minotaur maze of crete)

Athens is a place that is known for the famous literature and philosophers, The first people to inhabit Greece were from Mesopotamia (Sumer), so I gave them wings like Sumer, but of an owl, because the symbol of Athens is an owl!

And last is Sparta, I gave them a sun crown since their favorite god is Apollo, but other than that they are just a little angry gremlin XD

There is also Atlantis, they are a happy fish ≧◔◡◔≦ Their favorite god is Poseidon, and they sink into water in the myth so better be prepared XD

[sane-human]

Mycenae is a Cyclop with low self-esteem problems XD

They wear a mask to hide their one eye because they think they are a freak and scare people otherwise.

[sane-human]

"Greek society did not distinguish sexual desire or behavior by the gender of the participants, but rather by the role that each participant played in the act, that of active or passive."

"...among the Romans, normative homosexuality took place, not between freeborn males or social equals as among the Greeks, but between master and slave, client and prostitute or, in any case, between social superior and social inferior" -Wikipedia

I forgot to draw another ancient ship that I think it's pretty funny XD

Rome x Mycenae (most of ancient Greece), where Rome is in a panic 24/7 and Mycenae is just calm.

(here Rome is still only a kingdom so no dark eyes)