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Achaeans
Achaeans people of ancient Greece, of unknown origin. In Homer, the Achaeans are specifically a Greek-speaking people of S Thessaly. Historically, they seem to have appeared in the Peloponnesus during the 14th and 13th cent. BC, and c.1250 BC they became the ruling class. There is no sharp line of ... Read more
Achaean League
Achaean League , confederation of cities on the Gulf of Corinth. The First Achaean League, about which little is known, was formed presumably before the 5th cent. BC and lasted through the 4th cent. BC Its purpose was mutual protection against pirates. The Achaeans remained aloof from the wars in Gr... Read more
Achaea
Achaea , region of ancient Greece, in the northern part of the Peloponnesus on the Gulf of Corinth. It lay between Sicyon and Elis. There the Achaeans supposedly remained when driven from other parts of Greece by the Dorian invasion. The small Achaean cities eventually banded together in the First ... Read more
Hellen
Hellen , in Greek mythology, ancestor of the Hellenes, or Greeks; son of Deucalion and Pyrrha. He was the father of Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus, who were the progenitors of the principal nations of the Greeks—the Dorians, the Ionians, the Achaeans, and the Aeolians. ... Read more
Sybaris
Sybaris , ancient city of Magna Graecia, S Italy, in Bruttium, on the Gulf of Tarentum (now Taranto). It was founded in 720 BC by Achaeans and people from Argolis, the Troezenians. It became a wealthy Greek city, and its inhabitants were reputed to live voluptuous lives, hence the word sybaritic. ... Read more
Dorians
Dorians people of ancient Greece. Their name was mythologically derived from Dorus, son of Hellen . Originating in the northwestern mountainous region of Epirus and SW Macedonia, they migrated through central Greece and into the Peloponnesus probably between 1100 and 950 BC, defeating and displaci... Read more
Aratus
Aratus d. 213 BC, Greek statesman and general of Sicyon, prime mover and principal leader of the Second Achaean League . His objective at first was to free the Peloponnesus from Macedonian domination, and he is credited with bringing into the confederation many of the principal cities of Greece. B... Read more
Iliad, The
Iliad, The, a Greek epic poem attributed to Homer, describing the war waged by Achaean princes against Troy for the purpose of recovering Helen, wife of Menelaus, whom Paris, son of King Priam of Troy, had carried off. In particular it deals with the wrath of Achilles, the special hero of the poem,... Read more
Aegean civilization
Aegean civilization , term for the Bronze Age cultures of pre-Hellenic Greece. The complexity of those early civilizations was not suspected before the excavations of archaeologists in the late 19th cent. The most remarkable of the cultures was perhaps that of Crete, which was flourishing by the beg... Read more
Polybius
Polybius , 203? BC-c.120 BC, Greek historian, b. Megalopolis. As one of the leaders of the Achaean League and a friend of Philopoemen , he was influential in Greek politics. Having advocated the neutral stand of the League in the war between Rome and Macedon, he was deported (167 BC) with a large... Read more

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Achaeans
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Achaeans people of ancient Greece, of unknown origin. In Homer, the Achaeans are specifically a Greek-speaking people of S...invasions of the Dorians supposedly forced some of the Achaeans out to Asia Minor; others were concentrated in...
Cleomenes III
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Expansion Policies When the expansion of the Achaeans under Aratus made war inevitable in 229...danger, and after Cleomenes defeated the Achaeans in 227, King Archidamus was recalled...on winning a decisive victory over the Achaeans, Cleomenes left his citizen troops to...
Achaean League
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...mutual protection against pirates. The Achaeans remained aloof from the wars in Greece...between Macedon and Rome. In 198 BC the Achaeans went over to Rome and with Roman aid...Messene to join. Later suspecting the Achaeans of again looking toward Macedon, the...
Sybaris
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Gulf of Tarentum (now Taranto). It was founded in 720 BC by Achaeans and people from Argolis, the Troezenians. It became a wealthy...hence the word sybaritic. The Troezenians, ejected by the Achaeans, obtained the help of neighboring Crotona and destroyed the...
Dorians
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...probably between 1100 and 950 BC, defeating and displacing the Achaeans. They rapidly extended their influence to Crete and established...Although the cultural level of the Dorians was below that of the Achaeans, the Dorians did contribute to the culture of Greece, e...
Polybius
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...hostage to Rome in 168 bc. He became a friend of Scipio Africanus Minor , and accompanied him to Spain and Africa. He was present at the destruction of Carthage in 146 bc, and later acted as intermediary between Rome and the Achaeans.
Achilles' heel
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...Myrmidons — from the combined Greek army. In terms of simple military success, Achilles is ‘the best of the Achaeans’, or Greeks, but he takes the heroic code of honour to extremes. For example, while revenge was a perfectly...
Greek Cypriots
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...these rival groups played a major role in the turbulent history of Cyprus. The island's Greek heritage dates back to the Achaeans from southern Greece, who settled there between 2000 and 1600 bc. Other early foreign powers that occupied Cyprus included...
Peloponnesus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...by Leleges and Pelasgians (said to have been the builders of Mycenae and Tiryns ), the peninsula was later occupied by the Achaeans and then by the Dorians , who dominated the Peloponnesus in historic times. The chief ancient divisions of the Peloponnesus...
Mycenaean civilization
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...is now considered to give admirable glimpses of the culture of the late Mycenaean civilization of the 12th cent. BC (see Achaeans ). Bibliography: See W. Taylour, The Mycenaeans (1964); A. E. Samuel, The Mycenaeans in History (1966); G. E...

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Achaean
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...ancient Greece; (especially in Homeric contexts) Greek. The Achaeans were among the earliest Greek-speaking inhabitants of Greece...The Greek protagonists in the Trojan War are regularly called Achaeans in the Iliad , though this may have referred only to the leaders...

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Aias and the gods.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: College Literature; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...13) possibly indicating that the Achaeans are so unsure of the outcome of the battle...1990, 260-61). But why would the Achaeans feel the need to make such a prayer...Greeks at It. 1.511 -27, but the Achaeans did not know this. At the time of the...
'Troy' tramples on 'The Iliad'.(WORLD)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 5/20/2004; 700+ words ; ...Homer's version, the Greeks, whom he called Achaeans, are more complex. The reader is reminded...too busy throwing temper tantrums to notice Achaeans dying for his cause. So when Achaeans begin stabbing Trojans in their sleep (another...
Shanower, Eric. Betrayal, Part One.(Betrayal, Part One)(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Kliatt; 3/1/2008; ; 695 words ; ...the city of Troy. In this volume the Achaeans (Greeks) have not yet reached Troy...The second betrayal occurs when the Achaeans send an embassy to Troy and Menelaus...one for the Trojans, the other for the Achaeans). It contains violence, vulgarity...
Dear George ... letter from Magna Graecia. (the ancient city of Crotone, Italy, first celebrated in the 19th century George Gissing novel 'By the Ionian Sea')(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/6/1997; 700+ words ; ...site of the town Kroton, founded by the Achaeans in the eighth century BC. But Gissing...on the horizon from which the original Achaeans came 2,700 years ago, a young flautist...These confirm that long before the Achaeans and Corinthians went west in the eighth...
The Trojan War: A New History.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...is to set the traditional tale of the confrontation between Achaeans and Trojans in the context of the age in which Greeks of the...evidence illustrates the nature of the ships that carried the Achaeans across the Aegean; the types of troops and their organization...
Troy and Homer: Towards a Solution of an Old Mystery.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...a set of underground waterworks. This is a place Homer's Achaeans might well have spent ten years trying to sack. The Hittite...ethnicon A[chi][alpha][iota][omicron][iota] 'Achaeans (i.e., Mycenaean Greeks)" and the toponym Ahhiyawa...
Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...which the "collectivities" of Rome and Greece (Aetolians, Achaeans, Macedonians) oscillate. Polybius is seen to engage in a...Roman captors and his fellow-Greeks (especially his fellow-Achaeans, some of whom preferred Macedonian hegemony to Roman rule...
turkish delight
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 9/26/2009; 700+ words ; ...the water. Under its Greek name of Tenedos, Bozcaada sneaked into the history books during the Trojan War, when the wily Achaeans hid their fleet behind the island while their enemy succumbed to the lure of the Trojan Horse. In the 14th century, the Venetians...
Burnt by the son: Ethiopia's sacred art. (The Sacred Art of Ethiopia, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, coins, paintings, illuminated manuscripts, gold crosses, and other antiquities)(includes a related article on the next exhibition at the museum, The Pharaohs, from the Louvre)
Magazine article from: American Visions; 12/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...are, albeit nominally at first, brought into Christianity's fold. More than a thousand years earlier, Homer's proud Achaeans knew of the "most distant of men, the blameless Ethiopians." And almost two thousand years before the clash beneath the...
"The wounder will heal": Cognition and reconciliation in Hegel and Adorno
Magazine article from: Philosophy Today; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...city and in the ensuing skirmishes, Achilles wounds the defending king and hero, Telephus. Eventually, the nimble-witted Achaeans realize their error and retreat to their home shores, a journey which apparently takes them eight years. (By this time...