alace of Nestor give evidence of a highly organized bureaucracy comparable to other great kingdoms such as Egypt and Babylonia. The Mycenaean's imported the methods but not the ideals from these other empires. The Linear B tablets expose the Mycenaean hierarchical system. At Pylos, Knossos, and Thebes, there was a supreme ruler, the wanax. The wanax was chiefly the head of their political system.
             In Homer, Agamemnon was the king of Mycenae. Homer's Greek world depicts various palaces, with numbers of kings, with one dominant king. In Homer, the dominant king was Agamemnon. This is a quote from the Iliad to support the claim that Agamemnon was the most powerful king, "although you are powerful and the mother who bore you is a goddess, yet Agamemnon is superior and he rules over more men" (Iliad, I, 280f). The palace buildings functioned as administrative centers. An administrator needs an office, and in a society like Mycenae's, the office would also be his home, so the wanax dwelled in a multifunction palace. This tight netw
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