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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Alastor (category Achaeans (Homer))
    Parthenius, Erotica Pathemata 13 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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  • Antiphus (category Achaeans (Homer))
    Thebaid 7.755 Homer, Iliad 2.172-176 Robert Fagles Translation; Apollodorus, Epitome 6.15; Hyginus, Fabulae 97 Homer, Iliad 4.489 Homer, Iliad 2.864;...
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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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  • 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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    Demophon of Athens (category Achaeans (Homer))
    ) broke out, Demophon joined the Achaeans, led by King Agamemnon of Mycenae, however, he is not mentioned by Homer. The Athenians were led in battle...
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  • Eteoneus (category Achaeans (Homer))
    Jovian asteroid List of Greek mythological figures Homer, Odyssey 15.95 Pherecydes, fr. 132 Homer, Odyssey 4.32 "12916 Eteoneus (1998 TL15)". Minor Planet...
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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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    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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    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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  • Eudoros (category Achaeans (Homer))
    Eudorus to leave him at Troy and take the Myrmidons home. Homer, Iliad 16.179 ff. Troy (film) Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray...
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  • Eetion (mythology) (category Achaeans (Homer))
    Scholia on Euripides, Phoenissae 1129; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 219. Homer, Iliad 6.410 ff. Homer, Iliad 21.43. Quintus Smyrnaeus, 6.639. Quintus Smyrnaeus, 6...
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    Iliad (redirect from The Iliad of Homer)
    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...
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    BC Luwians 2300–1400 BC Assyria 1950–1750 BC Kussara 1780–1680 BC Achaeans (Homer) 1700–1300 BC Kizzuwatna 1650–1450 BC Hittites 1680–1220 BC Arzawa...
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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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  • Eurymedon (mythology) (category Achaeans (Homer))
    Potter, Comment. ad Lyc. Cass. 1283 Eustathius ad Homer, p. 987 Scholium on the Iliad 14.295 Homer, Odyssey 7.56 ff. Nonnus, 14.22 Cicero, De Natura Deorum...
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  • Epigeus (category Achaeans (Homer))
    after him. Homer, Iliad 16.570 (cited by Schmitz) Homer, Iliad 16.571 Homer, Iliad 16.572–575 Homer, Iliad 16.577 Homer, Iliad 16.569–580 Homer, The Iliad...
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  • the war in favor of the Trojans so that the Achaeans will regret having antagonized Achilles, and the Achaeans suffer significant losses. Tensions flare...
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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 Hyginus,...
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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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    Thersites (category Achaeans (Homer))
    of Homer, even if only as a minor and detestable character like Thersites, than by the poets of his own day: "I would sooner be a Thersites in Homer than...
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  • Epipole of Carystus (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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  • Alcimedon (category Achaeans (Homer))
    portal Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.581-691; Hyginus, Fabulae 134 Pausanias, 8.12.2 Homer, Iliad 16.197; Quintus Smyrnaeus, 11.448 ff. Virgil, Eclogue 3.37 and 44...
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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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