Achaeus
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Stromata
Author of Ethics, cited alongside other sources on endurance.
Likewise too Theodotus the Pythagorean did, and Paulus the acquaintance of Lacydes, as Timotheus of Pergamum says in his work On the Courage of the Philosophers, and Achaeus in his Ethics.
Vitae philosophorum
Writer of satiric dramas whom Menedemus ranked second after Aeschylus and from whose Omphale he quoted lines against political opponents.
then to Sophocles, and also to Achaeus, to whom he assigned the second place as a writer of satiric dramas, giving Aeschylus the first.
Ion
Son of Xuthus and Creusa, foretold to rule near Rhium in the Peloponnese and give his name to his followers.
and after him Achaeus in the land of Pelops;
Consolatio ad Apollonium
Poet credited with the phrase describing thoughtless mourners who afflict even their own innocent bodies with sorrow.
but they grow exorbitant in their sorrows, and afflict the innocent body, making it sick for company, as Achaeus expresseth it.