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. b.c., and c.1250 b.c. they became the ruling class. There is no sharp line of separation between the earlier Mycenaean civilization and the Achaean; the cultures seem to have intermingled. The invasions of the Dorians supposedly forced some of the Achaeans out to Asia Minor; others were concentrated in the region known in classical times as Achaea.

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Life in the Homeric Age
Book by Thomas Day Seymour; Biblio and Tannen, 1963
Subjects: Civilization, Homeric, Greece--Social Life And Customs, Homer
...stage of science, nor even who were the Achaeans or Greeks, and how long they had been...recent endeavor 1 to prove that the Achaeans were a light-haired race which not long...not seem to have been successful; the Achaeans, so far as we see, may have been the...
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Lectures on Ancient History, from the Earliest Times to the Taking of Alexandria by Octavianus: From the Earliest Times to the Taking of Alexandria by Octavianus. Comprising the History of the Asiatic Nations, the Egyptians, Greeks, Macedonians and Carthaginians - Vol. 3
Book by B. G. Niebuhr, Leonhard Schmitz; Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, 1852
Subjects: History, Ancient
...275 Achaeans and Boeotians at war with Aetolia...War of the Aetolians and Achaeans against Macedonia 304...Extension of the Achaeans 306...
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The Histories of Polybius - Vol. 2
Book by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh; Macmillan, 1889
Subjects: Greece--History, History, Ancient, Rome--History--Republic, 510-30 B.C
...21. Euryleon, the Strategus of the Achaeans, was a man of timid character, and quite...exceedingly annoying to many of the Achaeans, and especially to the orderly part of...looked upon the determination of the Achaeans as extremely favourable to his plans...
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The Histories of Polybius - Vol. 1
Book by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, Polybius; Macmillan, 1889
Subjects: Greece--History, History, Ancient, Rome--History--Republic, 510-30 B.C
...allies B.C. 192 . In B.C. 191 the Achaeans were allowed to add Messene and Elis...Polybius says that the "name of the Achaeans became the universal one for all the...was sent by Q. Marcius to prevent the Achaeans from consenting to supply five thousand...
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The Dawn of the Roman Empire: Books Thirty-One to Forty
Book by J. C. Yardley, Livy; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects: Punic War, 2nd, 218-201 B.C, Rome--History--Republic, 265-30 B.C
...Cleomenes induced Megalopolis to join the Achaeans in 235/4, and the city soon played no...portrait of Nabis derives from Polybius; Achaeans of his class feared reform as much as...Greece, and Polybius was among 1,000 Achaeans taken as hostages to Rome in 168/7...
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journal articles on: Achaeans  - 20 results

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The Fall of Troy and the Slaughter of the Suitors: Ultimate Symbolic Correspondence in the Odyssey
Journal article by Thomas Dilworth; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 27, 1994
Subjects: Odyssey (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...chief defender of Troy. At Troy, Achaeans had sacked a city-kingdom; in Ithaca, the next generation of Achaeans are gradually sacking another city...uninterrupted feasting. The parallel with the Achaeans laying siege to Troy is closer than...
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The Building of the City Walls: Troy and Asgard
Journal article by Joseph Fontenrose; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 96, 1983
Subjects: Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...Building of the City Walls Troy and Asgard IN THE SEVENTH BOOK of the Iliad , Poseidon objects to the wall that the Achaeans have built to protect their ships; its fame, he says, will eclipse that of the wall which he and Apollo had built for the...
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Feudalism in Pre-Colonial Malaya: The Past as a Colonial Discourse
Journal article by Cheah Boon Kheng; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 25, 1994
Subjects: Colonies--History, Feudalism--Analysis, Malaya--History
...by Cheah Boon Kheng What of the "feudalisms" throughout the world from China to the Greece of the beautifully greaved Achaeans? For the most part, they bear scarcely any resemblance to each other. That is because nearly every historian understands the...
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Homer for the Court of Francois I
Journal article by Marian Rothstein; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006
Subjects: Greek literature--Translations and translating, Homer (Greek poet)--Works, Translations--Analysis, Translations--History
...Agamemnon: "son of Atreus," "leader of the Achaeans," "shepherd of flocks," and so on. In...only because it came to the best of the Achaeans (2.82-83)--an expression usually, but...class under Francois I, presenting the Achaeans as a monarchy, like France, placing them...
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Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories
Journal article by Vernon Provencal; Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 41, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories (Book)--Book reviews
...collectivities" of Rome and Greece (Aetolians, Achaeans, Macedonians) oscillate. Polybius is...fellow-Greeks (especially his fellow-Achaeans, some of whom preferred Macedonian hegemony...narrative between the careers of Rome and the Achaeans, represented in the early books of the...
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Homer & the Power of Men That Have Chests
Magazine article by Christopher B. Nelson; New Criterion, Vol. 22, November 2003
Subjects: Greek poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Homer--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...rage of Peleus son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses" The images and the pace of the poetry appear...up above himself before he can again stand beside his fellow Achaeans. He must also learn compassion before reentering the community...
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Freedom in Sparta and Athens: The Stark Contrast between Ancient Sparta and Athens Makes Abundantly Clear That Cultural Achievement Occurs Only Where Men Are Free
Magazine article by Dennis Behreandt; The New American, Vol. 22, May 29, 2006
Subjects: Atheism--Social aspects, Athens, Greece--Cultural policy, Freedom--Social aspects, Greek history--Social aspects, Greeks--Social aspects, Liberty--Social aspects, Sparta, Greece--Cultural policy
...plain they conquered and enslaved an indigenous population, the Achaeans, that, perhaps, felt that the jutting peaks of the Taygetus...that the Spartans "appear to have dealt moderately with the Achaeans whom they subjugated and with other racial remnants ... whom...
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THE STRAGGLER: The Tale of the Tapes
Magazine article by John Derbyshire; National Review, Vol. 55, October 13, 2003
Subjects: Aeneid (Audiobook)
...founded can be worth anything, I prefer Virgil. He is much more obviously a civilized man, closer to a modern sensibility. Homers Achaeans were, lets face it, only just this side of barbarism. Seeking an informed opinion on this point, I consulted Tracy Lee Simmons...
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When Turks Civilized the World: Clive Foss Looks at the Way in Which Kemal Ataturk Rewrote History as Part of His Radical Modernization of the Turkish Nation
Magazine article by Clive Foss; History Today, Vol. 55, August 2005
Subjects: Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal--Works, Historical revisionism--Usage, Historical revisionism--Works, The Turkish History Thesis (Book), Turks--History
...so could be considered Turks. Their tribes had leaders called ege (hence the Aegean sea) or aka, a name taken by the Akalar (Achaeans) who produced the Mycenaean civilization. The Classical period was more difficult, but it was argued (correctly) that many...
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Highway Ulysses
Magazine article by Rinde Eckert; American Theatre, Vol. 20, September 2003
Subjects: Dramatists--Interviews, Eckert, Rinde--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Eckert, Rinde--Works
...then. (Pause.) GUARDIAN 1: Would you like to play cards? SON (Types and sings): Ulysses, my father, pride of the Achaeans Cunning hero of Troy Crosses the unfriendly sea...
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The Battle for the Truth of Troy; Love and War, Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom, a Face to Launch 1,000 Ships - This Summer's Blockbuster Has the Lot. but Just How Far Did Troy's Original Scriptwriter - Greek Poet Homer - Play with the Facts? TV Historian MICHAEL WOOD Unearths a Gripping Story
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 8, 2004
Subjects: Schliemann, Heinrich
...could be read in Hittite writing as Ahhiyawa - which is startlingly close to the name Homer that gave his Greeks: Achaiwoi (Achaeans). Even more amazingly, some of the letters seemed to refer to a war between the Hittites and the king of Ahhiyawa over his...


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encyclopedia articles on: Achaeans  - 13 results

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Achaeans
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ACHAEANS people of ancient Greece, of unknown origin. In Homer, the Achaeans are specifically a Greek-speaking people of S Thessaly...invasions of the Dorians supposedly forced some of the Achaeans out to Asia Minor; others were concentrated in the region...
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Achaean League
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...mutual protection against pirates. The Achaeans remained aloof from the wars in Greece...between Macedon and Rome. In 198 b.c. 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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Sybaris
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Gulf of Tarentum (now Taranto). It was founded in 720 b.c. 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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Dorians
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...probably between 1100 and 950 b.c., 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.g...
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Achaea
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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...
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