This seminar is an in-depth treatment of the site of Mycenae and its environs. A careful reading of the survey and excavation reports from the site prompts a number of questions about the origin, development, consolidation, and collapse of complex society in the Mycenaean period. We will also cast a wider net to consider Mycenae in its regional, interregional, and international contexts. Specific topics of research will include themes and material from both the prehistoric and historic periods of occupation, as well as the historiography of the site and its excavations.