MYCENÆ, (Homer); a town of Argolis; formerly the capital, and the royal residence of Agamemnon, fifty stadia to the north of Argos, celebrated by the poets. After the war of Troy, on the extinction of Agamemnon's kingdom, it fell to such decay, that in Strabo's time there was not so much as a trace of it remaining: but that, in the Macedonian war carried on by the Romans, there was something of a town, is plain from the Excerpta of Polybius, to whom add Livy. It was famous for its breed of horses. (Virgil, Horace).