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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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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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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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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Canopus (mythology) (redirect from Canopus (Homer))
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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Antiphus (category Achaeans (Homer))
Cretensis, 4.7 Homer, Iliad 4.489 Dictys Cretensis, 4.7 Homer, Iliad 2.864; Apollodorus, E.3.35 Homer, Odyssey 2.15-20; Quintus Smyrnaeus, 8.125 Homer, Odyssey...
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Eteoneus (category Achaeans (Homer))
asteroid List of Greek mythological figures 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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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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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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Amphilochus I of Argos (category Achaeans (Homer))
In Greek mythology, Amphilochus (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφίλοχος Amphílokhos) was an Argive hero and one of the Epigoni. Amphilochus was the son of Amphiaraus...
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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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Dymas (category Achaeans (Homer))
8.3. Apollodorus, 3.12.5; Homer, Iliad 16.717 Quintus Smyrnaeus, 7.606 Quintus Smyrnaeus, 8.303 Virgil, Aeneid 2.340 Homer, Odyssey 6.22 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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Androgeus (Aeneid) (category Achaeans (Homer))
In Virgil's Aeneid, Androgeos or Androgeus (Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρόγεως, romanized: Androgeōs; derived from andros "of a man" and geos, genitive gē "earth...
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Eurylochus of Same (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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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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Amphion (category Achaeans (Homer))
Amphionian) Homer, Odyssey 11.260–3; Brill's New Pauly s.v. Amphion; Grimal, s.v. Amphion, p. 38. Pausanias, 6.20.18 Diodorus Siculus, 4.68.6 Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey...
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Antiphates (category Achaeans (Homer))
Turnus. Ancient Greece portal Myths portal Homer, Odyssey 15.238; Diodorus Siculus, 4.68.5 Tryphiodorus, 152 Homer, Iliad 12.191 (Project Gutenberg) 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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Sinon (category Achaeans (Homer))
Sinopos was a Greek warrior during the Trojan War. He is not mentioned by Homer, but his story is given in the Aeneid of Virgil and other accounts, as a...
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Iliad (redirect from The Iliad of Homer)
allow the Achaeans to be beaten back by the Trojans until their ships are at risk of burning. Only then will Agamemnon realize how much the Achaeans need Achilles...
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Aphareus (category Achaeans (Homer))
Plathane. Apollodorus, 1.9.5 & 3.10.3 Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.341-344 Homer, Iliad 9.83 Homer, Iliad 13.541 Suda, al.4556 Apollodorus, The Library with an English...
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Stentor (category Achaeans (Homer))
" List of Trojan War characters Homer, Iliad 5.785-6 Scholia on Iliad 5.785; Eustathius on Homer, Iliad 607.29 Homer, Iliad with an English Translation...
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Alcimus (mythology) (category Achaeans (Homer))
Alkimos, Jovian asteroid Homer, Iliad 24.474 & 575 Quintus Smyrnaeus, 11.87 Pausanias, 3.15.1 Homer, Odyssey 22.235 Scholia on Homer, Iliad 11.692 Tzetzes...
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Dryas (mythology) (category Achaeans (Homer))
Hyginus, Fabulae 170 Homer calls him mainomenos, "mad", from the same root as "Maenad" Iliad 4.130-40 Apollodorus, 3.5.1 Homer, Iliad 6.130; Sophocles...
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Periphas (category Achaeans (Homer))
147, 10.43–44. ISBN 978-0-674-23837-4. Homer, Odyssey 10.6 & 11–12 Apollodorus, E.7.29 Apollodorus, E.7.33 Homer, Iliad 17.323 Antoninus Liberalis, The...
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Eurybates (category Achaeans (Homer))
herald mentioned in Iliad, 2 ("Eurybates of Ithaca"), and in the Odyssey. Homer, Odyssey 19.246–9 (in French) René Langumier, Les hérauts de l'ambassade...
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by Orestes' former co-consul Sextus Julius Caesar, went badly, and the Achaeans, outraged at Rome's actions, and whipping up populist sentiment, declared...
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Thersander (category Achaeans (Homer))
In Greek mythology, the name Thersander (/θɜːrˈsændər, -ˈsɑːn-/; Ancient Greek: Θέρσανδρος Thersandros means 'bold man' derived from θέρσος thersos 'boldness...
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