 The presence of the important and influential military aristocracy that formed in Mycenaean society offers an overwhelming impression of a fierce and warlike people . This impression of militarism is reinforced by the fortifications erected throughout Mycenaean Greece , the large numbers and quality of the weapons retrieved from the Mycenaean royal graves , artistic representations of war scenes and the textual evidence provided by the Linear B records . The Linear B scripts also offer some detail about the organization of the military personnel , while military production and logistics were supervised by a central authority from the palaces . According to the records in the palace of Pylos , every rural community ( the damos ) was obliged to supply a certain number of men who had to serve in the army ; similar service was also performed by the aristocracy . 
