During the second part of the 12th century BCE, the Mycenaean Greece was inevitably disintegrating and fading into the Dark Ages. The event that finally put an end to the Mycenaean era was known among the ancient Greeks as the “Return of the Heracleidae”, where the northern warlords, allied with the Dorian tribes, marched on Peloponnese and defeated the Mycenaean king Tisamenus, the final Achaean ruler of the peninsula.
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