Cyaxares
Cyaxares , d. 585 BC, king of Media (c.625-585 BC). His name also appears as Umakishtar and Huyakhshtara. In the course of his reign he raised the kingdom of the Medes to a major power in the Middle East. Cyaxares reorganized Median military forces, developing the cavalry especially, and renewed war with Assyria. He captured and leveled (614) Ashur and after joining forces with Nabopolassar of Babylonia as well as with the Scythians, who were former enemies, besieged Nineveh, occupying and pillaging the city in 612. Fighting continued (612-605) in N Mesopotamia and ended in the defeat of the Assyrians, with Cyaxares claiming Assyria proper as Media's share of the spoils. Hostilities later erupted between Media and the neighboring kingdom of Lydia in the northwest; they lasted from 590 to 585, ending in a stalemate. Cyaxares was succeeded by his son Astyages .
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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...
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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...
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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...
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'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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Chicago rockers invade Oakland, doing the Sybaris warriors proud.(DAILY DATEBOOK)(Interview)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle; 8/19/2005; ; 700+ words
; Byline: Daniel King Three thousand years ago, the Achaeans -- a group of Greek warriors -- founded Sybaris, a city...musical form, is a strong musical device. If only the Achaeans, of Sybaris, were alive to see what their town's namesake...
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Consult the oracle.
Magazine article from: Calliope; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Now, Oibotas was preventing Achaea from gaining Olympic glory because no one was honoring his memory. On the advice of the oracle, the Achaeans set up a statue of Oibotas at Olympia, and the curse was lifted. illustrated by Chad Turner
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The Song of the Sirens.(Poem)
Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...ship approaching swiftly. Then they began to sing their Siren song. "Come to us, Odysseus, you who are the pride of the Achaeans, You great man. Stay your ship's course. Listen to our Siren voice No seafarer has yet sailed past our island in his black...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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