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	Achaeans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Argives is a political annotation drawn from the original capital of the Achaeans, Argos.
		Achaeans is the name of the tribe that, reinforced by the Aeolians, first dominated Greek territories, centering itself around its capital in Mycenae.
		However the exact relationship of the term Ahhiyawa to the Achaeans beyond a similarity in pronunciation is hotly debated by scholars.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Achaeans (361 words)

	Achaeans - LoveToKnow 1911
		All the ancient dynasties traced their descent from Poseidon, who at the time of the Achaean conquest was the chief male divinity of Greece and the islands.
		The leaders of the Achaean invasion were Pelops, who took possession of Elis, and Aeacus, who became master of Aegina and was said to have introduced there the worship of Zeus Panhellenius, whose cult was also set up at Olympia.
		The culture of the Homeric Achaeans corresponds to a large extent with that of the early Iron Age of the upper Danube (Hallstatt) and to the early Iron Age of upper Italy (Villanova).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Achaeans (521 words)

	ACHAEANS, Greek Mythology Link.
		Achaean warrior who was among those who hid inside the WOODEN HORSE [QS.12.321].
		Sinon is the man, son of Aesimus, who was to light a beacon lamp as a signal to the Achaeans for the final assault.
		Thersander 1, who was killed by Telephus when the Achaean fleet arrived by mistake in Mysia, was son of Polynices, son of Oedipus.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/ACHAEANS.html (2203 words)

	Achaeans
		The Achaeans is the name given to the people who migrated into Greece around the 17th century BC.
		The name Achaean was applied by Homer in his Iliad to describe Achilles' people and the followers of Agamemnon.
		Around 1200 BC occupation of most of the Mycenaean citadels ended, as happened to other cities across the near east, and their civilization faded away; later Dorians occupied many of their strongholds in the Peloponnesus and elsewhere in Greece, and the Hellenic civilization preserved fragments of information about these people in their legends and myths.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ac/Achaean.html (192 words)

	Achaean League - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		ACHAEAN LEAGUE [Achaean League], confederation of cities on the Gulf of Corinth.
		The Achaeans remained aloof from the wars in Greece until they joined the opposition to Philip II of Macedon in 338 BC The confederation was dissolved soon after.
		The Second Achaean League was founded in 280 BC Sicyon was freed from the rule of its tyrant in 251 BC, and it soon joined the confederation under the leadership of Aratus.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/AchaeanL.asp (413 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Achaeans
		Achaean League ACHAEAN LEAGUE [Achaean League], confederation of cities on the Gulf of Corinth.
		Her sons, Achaeus by Xuthus, and Ion by Xuthus or Apollo, are the ancestors of the Achaeans and the Ionians.
		As one of the leaders of the Achaean League and a friend of Philopoemen, he was influential in Greek politics.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Achaeans (611 words)

	Achaeans: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		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...
		At Troy, Achaeans had sacked a city-kingdom; in Ithaca, the next generation of Achaeans are gradually sacking another city...uninterrupted feasting.
		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...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/achaeans.jsp?l=A&p=1 (1298 words)

	Achaeans - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Achaeans, people of an ancient region in the northern Peloponnese, Greece.
		Achaean League, confederacy of 10 or 12 Peloponnesian states in ancient Greece.
		It was established originally by the ancient Achaeans, a...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Achaeans.html (123 words)

	Achaea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The origin of the name has given rise to much speculation; Achaean is a common term for the Greek troops in Homer.
		The Achaeans proper in the Catalogue of Ships are from Argos and Tiryns.
		However, one theory is that the Achaeans were driven to this region by the Dorian invaders of the Peloponnese.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Achaea (1054 words)

	Achaeans - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Achaeans, people of an ancient region in the northern Pelopónnisos (Peloponnesus), Greece.
		Achaean League, confederation of 10 or 12 towns in ancient Greece.
		It was established originally by the ancient Achaeans, a Greek-speaking people...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Achaeans.html (109 words)

	SparkNotes: The Iliad: Books 7–8
		Zeus and Poseidon watch the Achaeans as they build their fortifications, planning to tear them down as soon as the men leave.
		With a shower of lightning upon the Achaean army, Zeus turns the tide of battle in the Trojans’ favor, and the Greeks retreat in terror.
		The decline of the Achaeans marks not only a change in the gods’ behavior but also a more important change in the poem’s human dynamics: the Achaeans’ eventual collapse motivates their appeal to Achilles in Book 9, which serves to bring the epic’s crucial figure to the center of the action.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/iliad/section5.rhtml (1277 words)

	AllRefer.com - Achaeans (Ancient History, Greece) - Encyclopedia
		Achaeans, people of ancient Greece, of unknown origin.
		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.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Achaeans.html (185 words)

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		The Achaeans are now taking the girl in a ship [390] to Chryse, and sending gifts of sacrifice to the god; but the heralds have just taken from my tent the daughter of Brisês, whom the Achaeans had awarded to myself.
		This he flung to his comrades among the Achaeans, and was again springing upon Alexander to run him through with a spear, but Aphrodite snatched him up in a moment (as a god can do), hid him under a cloud of darkness, and conveyed him to his own bedchamber.
		Go, therefore, as in duty bound, and tell the princes of the Achaeans the message that I have sent them; tell them to find some other plan for the saving of their ships and people, for so long as my displeasure lasts the one that they have now hit upon may not be.
	www.uh.edu /~cldue/3397/Sourcebook_3397.doc (17694 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The Iliad by Homer
		Now Chryses had come to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and had brought with him a great ransom: moreover he bore in his hand the sceptre of Apollo wreathed with a suppliant's wreath and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus, who were their chiefs.
		Therefore, Agamemnon, though you be strong, take not this girl away, for the sons of the Achaeans have already given her to Achilles; and you, Achilles, strive not further with the king, for no man who by the grace of Jove wields a sceptre has like honour with Agamemnon.
		The Achaeans are now taking the girl in a ship to Chryse, and sending gifts of sacrifice to the god; but the heralds have just taken from my tent the daughter of Briseus, whom the Achaeans had awarded to myself.
	classics.mit.edu /Homer/iliad.1.i.html (4889 words)

	Chapter 6
		We begin with the song of Phemios in Odyssey i; his subject is the nostos 'homecoming' of the Achaeans (i 326-327),[2] and his song brings grief rather than entertainment to one of his listeners, who happens to be the wife of Odysseus.
		The action stops just when various Achaean heroes are performing their various grisly feats during the destruction of Troy, such as the killing of Deiphobos (viii 516-520).
		At this point, the weeping of Odysseus is compared by way of a simile to the weeping of a widow who is taken as captive by a ruthless enemy after the destruction of her city and the killing of her husband (viii 523-531).
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/nagy/BofATL/chapter6.html (6734 words)

	iliad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Therefore, Agamemnon, though you be strong, take not this girl away, for the sons of the Achaeans have already given her to Achilles; and you, Achilles, strive not further with the king, for no man who by the grace of [Zeus] wields a sceptre has like honour with Agamemnon.
		Thus he spoke, and the sons of the Achaeans for a long while sat sorrowful there, but they all held their peace, till at last Diomed of the loud battle-cry made answer saying, "Son of Atreus, I will chide your folly, as is my right in council.
		I had fifty sons when the Achaeans came here; nineteen of them were from a single womb, and the others were borne to me by the women of my household.
	www.emporia.edu /~gerishde/321/iliad.html (10744 words)

	SparkNotes: The Iliad: Plot Overview
		During the battle, the Achaeans capture a pair of beautiful maidens, Chryseis and Briseis.
		He vengefully yearns to see the Achaeans destroyed and asks his mother, the sea-nymph Thetis, to enlist the services of Zeus, king of the gods, toward this end.
		The Achaeans begin to nurture some hope for the future when a nighttime reconnaissance mission by Diomedes and Odysseus yields information about the Trojans’ plans, but the next day brings disaster.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/iliad/summary.html (837 words)

	Chapter 5
		When this loigos 'devastation' is removed with the appeasement of Apollo's anger, the Achaeans sing a paiêôn 'paean' to him (I 473), where the name of the song is also the epithet denoting the healing powers of the god.
		Achilles was as instrumental in ridding the Achaeans of their first akhos as he was in bringing upon them the second; in fact, he had even prayed to Zeus for the grief that would come upon them (XVIII 74-77; cf.
		Since the mênis 'anger' of Achilles had caused akhos 'grief' for the Achaeans during the Battle of the Ships,[1] it is significant that the suspension of this same mênis now causes them "mirth"--as conveyed by the root khar- in echarêsan 'were happy' at XIX 74.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/nagy/BofATL/chapter5.html (9264 words)

	ClSt 200 - Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A plague has struck the Achaean (Greek) camp brought on by Apollo, who can only be appeased with the return of Chryseis, daughter of a priest of Apollo, to her father.
		With fighting resumed, both armies battle bravely but the outstanding warrior is the Achaean hero, Diomedes, who Athena has inspired with exceptional courage and skill, as well as the ability to distinguish gods from men.
		The Trojans reach the Achaean wall and Hektor persuades the Trojans to camp on the plain for the night in order to retain the advantage for the morning’s assault.
	www.classics.upenn.edu /myth/info/iliad.php (1813 words)

	The Iliad of Homer by Homer 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		BOOK VI THE fight between Trojans and Achaeans was now left to rage as it would, and the tide of war surged hither and thither over the plain as they aimed their bronze-shod spears at one another between the streams of Simois and Xanthus.
		First, Ajax son of Telamon, tower of strength to the Achaeans, broke a phalanx of the Trojans, and came to the assistance of his comrades by killing Acamas son of Eussorus, the best man among the Thracians, being both brave and of great stature.
		Thereon they rallied and again faced the Achaeans, who gave ground and ceased their murderous onset, for they deemed that some one of the immortals had come down from starry heaven to help the Trojans, so strangely had they rallied.
	www.classicbookshelf.com /library/homer/the_iliad_of_homer/5 (3757 words)

	THE ILIAD of Homer
		The Achaeans were angry and disgusted, yet none the less he kept on brawling and bawling at the son of Atreus.
		They passed through the spreading host of the Achaeans and went on till they came to the place where Menelaos had been wounded and was lying with the chieftains gathered in a circle round him.
		When the Achaeans are in full fight with the Trojans, you shall see, if you care to do so, that the father of Telemakhos will join battle with the foremost of them.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~chs/HPJ/iliad.html (21085 words)

	Achaeans
		and the Achaean; the cultures seem to have intermingled.
		supposedly forced some of the Achaeans out to Asia Minor; others were concentrated in the region known in classical times as Achaea.
		Achaean League - Achaean League, confederation of cities on the Gulf of Corinth.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/history/A0802304.html (178 words)

	Illiad Book 1
		On this the rest of the Achaeans with one voice were for
		sons of the Achaeans bear it as judges and guardians of the decrees of
		Achaeans are now taking the girl in a ship to Chryse, and sending
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/aegean/literature/the_illiad/1.html (4918 words)

	Athena Review Image Archive: Lower Danube: mosaic of Menander's Achaeans at Oescus
		On the white background, over the figures, is the inscription "Achaeans of Menander" ([M]ENANDROU AXAIOI; figs.1), referring to a lost work by Menander (342-291 BC), the famous Athenian comic playwright.
		His comedy "The Achaeans" was unknown prior to the 1948 discovery of this inscription.
		The name "Achaeans" naturally suggests that they were prominent persons from the Achaean world.
	www.athenapub.com /oesc2.htm (260 words)

	THE ILIAD of Homer
		[15] and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus, who were their chiefs.
		He it was who had guided the Achaeans with their fleet to Ilion, through the prophesyings with which Phoebus Apollo had inspired him.
		He brought Briseis from the tent and gave her over to the heralds, who took her with them to the ships of the Achaeans - and the woman was loath to go.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~chs/HPJ/scroll1.html (5914 words)

	A new theory about the Trojan era
		They raided the countryside, destroying the rich Achaean culture, cities and enclaves along with the native Achaean population.
		I believe the Achaeans spoke a language that was more closely related to the language family of the later City States, but surely it wasn’t the same as that which was brought from Thessaly by the Dorians.
		It is also interesting that the Achaean architecture has a striking resemblance to the Egyptian.
	www.maknews.com /html/articles/spevak/trojan_era.htm (1572 words)

	The Iliad of Homer by Homer 14
		Thus then were the Achaeans hemmed in at their ships, calling out to one another and raising their hands with loud cries every man to heaven.
		Now Patroclus, so long as the Achaeans and Trojans were fighting about the wall, but were not yet within it and at the ships, remained sitting in the tent of good Eurypylus, entertaining him with his conversation and spreading herbs over his wound to ease his pain.
		The Achaeans stood firm and resisted the attack of the Trojans, yet though these were fewer in number, they could not drive them back from the ships, neither could the Trojans break the Achaean ranks and make their way in among the tents and ships.
	www.classicbookshelf.com /library/homer/the_iliad_of_homer/14 (5488 words)

	THE ILIAD of Homer
		The girl whom the sons of the Achaeans chose for me, whom I won as the fruit of my spear on having sacked a city - her has King Agamemnon taken from me as though I were some common vagrant.
		Mighty was the din of their armor as they came together, and Zeus shed a thick darkness over the fight, to increase the ordeal [ponos] of the battle over the body of his son.
		Then Patroklos sprang like Ares with fierce intent and a terrific shout upon the Trojans, and thrice did he kill nine men; but as he was coming on like a daimôn for a time, at that moment, O Patroklos, was your doom approaching, for Phoebus fought you in fell earnest.
	www.uh.edu /~cldue/texts/iliadselections.html (13825 words)

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