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    The Achaeans or Akhaians (/əˈkiːənz/; Ancient Greek: Ἀχαιοί, romanized: Akhaioí, "the Achaeans" or "of Achaea") is one of the names in Homer which is used...
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  • thus Achaeans may refer to: Achaeans (Homer), a name used by Homer in the Iliad for Mycenaean-era Greeks in general. Achaeans (tribe), one of the major...
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    the absence of Achilles, the best warrior of the Achaeans. After the withdrawal of Achilles, the Achaeans were initially successful. Both armies gathered...
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    that the Achaeans (referring to the tribe of the Classical period) originally dwelt in Argolis and Laconia. According to Herodotus, the Achaeans were forced...
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    Iliad (redirect from The Iliad of Homer)
    Agamemnon and the Achaeans wealth for the return of his daughter Chryseis, held captive by Agamemnon. Although most of the Achaeans are in favour of the...
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  • Eteoneus (category Achaeans (Homer))
    asteroid List of mortals in Greek mythology Homer, Odyssey 4.31 & 15.95 with scholia ad 4.22 Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 4.10 & 22; Pherecydes, fr. 132 [=Fowler...
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  • Trechus (mythology) (category Achaeans (Homer))
    he was slain by the Trojan hero Hector and the war-god Ares. Homer, Iliad 5.706 Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in...
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    In Greek mythology, Canopus or Canobus (Ancient Greek: Κάνωβος) was the pilot of the ship of King Menelaus of Sparta during the Trojan War. Canopus is...
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    surrounding Homer's life, they indicate little more than the centrality of Homer to ancient Greek culture. Some ancient accounts about Homer were established...
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  • Eurymachus (Odyssey) (category Achaeans (Homer))
    Penelope's maid, Melantho, is his lover. Homer, Odyssey 16.435–450 Homer, Odyssey 22.48–93 Homer, Odyssey 18.368–369 Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation...
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    Epeius of Phocis (category Achaeans (Homer))
    He was also the architect of the Wooden Horse, by means of which the Achaeans took Troy; he was himself among those warriors who hid inside it. Epeius...
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  • Leucus (category Achaeans (Homer))
    9-10; Tzetzes, Chiliades 3.291-298; on Lycophron, 386, 1093, 1218 & 1222 Homer, Iliad 4.491 Nonnus, 24.231 Tzetzes on Lycophron, 680 Apollodorus, The Library...
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  • Stichius (mythology) (category Achaeans (Homer))
    of great-souled Menestheus". Homer, Iliad 13.195 Homer, Iliad 13.691 Homer, Iliad 15.329–330 Homer, Iliad 15.329–331 Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation...
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    date the contents of the find even earlier, to approximately 2500 BC. Achaeans (Homer) Teres I Golden Bust of Septimius Severus Gere 2011, pp. 1–2. "Behind...
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  • Eurylochus (category Achaeans (Homer))
    ISBN 978-0-674-23837-4. Homer, Odyssey 10.205; Apollodorus, Epitome 7.14 Homer, Odyssey 10.212 Homer, Odyssey 10.221 Homer, Odyssey 10.231 & 258; Apollodorus...
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  • Peisander (mythology) (category Achaeans (Homer))
    Recognitions 10.21 Homer, Iliad 6.196–197. Homer, Iliad 6.203–204; Strabo, 12.8.5 & 13.4.16 Homer, Iliad 16.193 Homer, Iliad 11.122 & 138. Homer, Iliad 12.188–189...
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  • Helenus (mythology) (category Achaeans (Homer))
    and Telemachus. Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.23 Apollodorus, 3.12.5 Homer, Iliad 5.707 Apollodorus, Epitome 7.30 Apollodorus, Epitome 7.33 Apollodorus...
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  • Alastor (category Achaeans (Homer))
    Euphorion and from Dectadas Homer, Iliad 5.677; Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.257 Homer, Iliad 10.463 Homer, Iliad 4.295 Homer, Iliad 8.333 & 13.422 Claudian...
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  • Echion (category Achaeans (Homer))
    In Greek mythology, the name Echion /ɛˈkaɪɒn/ (Ancient Greek: Ἐχῑ́ων (gen.: Ἐχίονος), derivative of ἔχις echis "viper") referred to five different beings:...
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  • Leiocritus (category Achaeans (Homer))
    He was slain by Telemachus. Pausanias, 10.27.1 Homer, Iliad 17.345 Apollodorus, Epitome 7.29 Homer, Odyssey 2.242; Apollodorus, Epitome 7.33 Apollodorus...
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  • Epipole (daughter of Trachion) (category Achaeans (Homer))
    In Greek mythology, Epipole (Ancient Greek: Ἐπιπολή) was a daughter of Trachion, of Carystus in Euboea. In the disguise of a man she went with the Greeks...
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  • Haemon (mythology) (category Achaeans (Homer))
    Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 15.213 with Pherecydes as the authority Apollodorus, 3.5.8 Pausanias, 5.3.6 Eustathius on Homer, Illiad p. 338 Homer, Iliad 2...
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  • Alcimedes (category Achaeans (Homer))
    a son Jason and Medea and brother of Tisander. Alcimedes, one of the Achaeans who fought in the Trojan war. He was a friend of the hero Ajax, son of...
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  • Iasus (category Achaeans (Homer))
    Hyginus, Fabulae 70, 99. Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 11.281 citing Pherecydes fr. 117= Fowler (2013), vol. 1 p. 338 Homer, Odyssey 11.284: "the youngest daughter";...
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  • Noemon (mythology) (category Achaeans (Homer))
    Aeneas in Italy. Homer, Iliad 5.678 & Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.258 Homer, Iliad 23.612 Homer, Odyssey 2.386 Virgil, Aeneid 9.767 Homer, The Iliad with an...
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  • Aesymnus (mythology) (category Achaeans (Homer))
    name inspired 231666 Aisymnos, a Jupiter trojan. Homer, Iliad 11.303 Homer, Iliad 11.299–309 Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray...
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  • Agelaus (category Achaeans (Homer))
    Smyrnaeus, 3.229 Quintus Smyrnaeus, 1.300 Homer, Iliad 8.253 Quintus Smyrnaeus, 4.365 Homer, Iliad 11.299 Homer, Odyssey 22.241 & 293; Apollodorus, E.7...
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  • Antitheus (category Achaeans (Homer))
    (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίθεον means "equal to the gods, godlike") was one of the Achaean soldiers who was killed by the Amazon queen, Penthesilea. Quintus Smyrnaeus...
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  • Eurymachus (category Achaeans (Homer))
    Homer, Iliad 11.248 & 256, 19.53 Homer, Iliad 20.395 Virgil, Aeneid 6.484; Apollodorus, Epitome 5.21; Dictys Cretensis, 4.7; Pausanias, 10.27.3 Homer...
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  • Cleodorus (category Achaeans (Homer))
    In Greek mythology, Cleodorus (Ancient Greek:Κλεόδωρον) was a Rhodian soldier during the Trojan War who was shot to death by Paris, son of King Priam and...
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