Imagining the Bronze Age
The Mycenaean or Bronze Age, ancient Greeks, flourished from about 1600-1100 BC and then somehow disappeared. The war with Troy took place c.1200 BC. "Homer" wrote the epics down c.800 BC, and, like many historical fictions, his telling represents his own culture, his own culture's methods of warfare etc., rather than that which took place 400 years earlier.
Like Homer we are also stuck visualizing Bronze Age Greek life via more "modern" artifacts, so what's below is really meant to help us imagine scenes from the Iliad and Odyssey rather than serving as some sort of accurate archeological record
Greek home
3d reconstruction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMSnB1odz8w
Knosos
in 3d https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Ez8drCIvc
Virtual
roman house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDiqKUzSeZM (from
ancientvine.com)
Mycenaean Artifacts, British Museum:
Greek triremes (c. 500 BC):