Achaeans
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But the Achaeans were so foolish as to think that even the dead have further need of women, and they slaughtered Polyxena at the tomb of Achilles.
in the texts
Iliad
The Greek army besieging Troy, also called Danaans or Argives, afflicted by plague and divided by the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon.
" And Achilles answered,
To see the pride [ hubris] of Agamemnon, son of Atreus?
so they purified themselves and cast their filth into the sea.
Odyssey
The collective body of Greek warriors and people, called Achaeans, Danaans, or Argives interchangeably, who fought at Troy and are now returning home.
for then the Achaeans would have built a mound over his ashes, and I should myself have been heir to his renown [ kleos];
You are indeed wonderfully like him about the head and eyes, for we were close friends before he set sail for Troy where the flower of all the Argives went also.
I will embolden him to call the Achaeans in assembly, and speak out to the suitors of his mother Penelope, who persist in eating up any number of his sheep and oxen;
Hellenica
The people who betray the Heracleot colonists in battle against the Oetaeans, resulting in heavy losses.
At about the same time, also, the colonists of Heracleia, in Trachis, were betrayed by the Achaeans in a battle where both peoples were drawn up against their enemies, the Oetaeans, and as a result about seven hundred of the Heracleots perished, together with the Lacedaemonian governor, Labotas.
but when the Athenians took position opposite the Lacedaemonians, and the Boeotians themselves got the right wing and were stationed opposite the Achaeans, they immediately said that the sacrifices were favourable and gave the order to make ready, saying that there would be a battle.
for the Athenians barred the passage from Calydon to Peloponnesus with their triremes, using Oeniadae as a base.
Orations
The Greek army besieging Troy, whose near-flight is checked by rhetorical persuasion and who celebrate victory with the paean.
then it was that Odysseus alone was able to call them back and turn them about, and at last by his speech, together with Nestor, persuaded them to remain.
and the song of victory composed after this by the Muses, such as Achilles bade the Achaeans sing—the paean—at the dragging of Hector to the ships, himself leading off:
"And indeed he says that the Achaeans, when victorious, encamped in quiet, whereas among the Trojans, whenever they thought they had some advantage, at once there was all through the night 'the sound of flutes and pipes and the din of men'—as though this too were a sufficient sign of virtue or of baseness:
Against Ctesiphon
Greek group claimed to be contributing to the anti-Philip effort.
the united Achaeans and the Megarians sixty talents, and the united cities in Euboea, forty.
the Eleans and the Achaeans, all but the people of Pellene, had come over to them, and so had all Arcadia except Megalopolis, and that city was under siege and its capture was daily expected.
Hecuba
The Greek army encamped before Troy, referenced as onlookers whose potential interference Hecuba must forestall, as absent from the women's tents during the ambush, and as the fleet finally able to sail home.
sons of Atreus!
There are no Achaeans within;
I perceive a breeze just rising to waft us home.
The Trojan Women
The collective Greek army besieging and now sacking Troy, responsible for judging Helen, killing Astyanax, and burning the city.
for I am that Menelaus, who has toiled so hard, I and Achaea’s army.
You captains whose allotted task it is to fire this town of Priam, to you I speak.
the army with one consent, that army whom you wronged, handed you over to me to die.
The Rights of War and Peace
Greek confederation appearing in two embassy anecdotes.
The Achaeans refused to admit the ambassadors of Perseus, who were secretly meditating war against the Romans.
When the Achaeans had arrested some Lacedaemonians who were along with the Roman ambassadors, the Romans raised a great outcry against the act, as a violation of the law of nations.
Livy has given an address of the Achaeans to the senate, in which they ask, “how their availing themselves of the rights of war can ever be fairly called in question, or made a subject of discussion?
Philoctetes
The Achaeans are the Greek army at Troy, associated with the campaign, Philoctetes' exclusion, and the renewed plan to retrieve him.
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Anabasis
Greek regional group represented by Socrates the Achaean.
Agias the Arcadian and Socrates the Achaean were the two others who were put to death.
When they reached Tissaphernes’ doors, the generals were invited in—Proxenus the Boeotian, Menon the Thessalian, Agias the Arcadian, Clearchus the Laconian, and Socrates the Achaean—while the captains waited at the doors.
As they proceeded, they could see the track of the Arcadians and Achaeans along the road leading towards Calpe.
On the Treaty with Alexander
Greek people of the Peloponnese whose democracies provide an example of the constitutional protection guaranteed by the peace.
But just reflect, men of Athens, that the Achaeans in the Peloponnese enjoyed democratic government, and one of their democracies, that of Pellene, has now been overthrown by the Macedonian king, who has expelled the majority of the citizens, given their property to their slaves, and set up Chaeron, the wrestler, as their tyrant.
Helen
The Greek warriors who fought at Troy and, later in the window, Menelaos's disguised shipwrecked comrades who help execute the escape.
For the command of this ship is yours.
Finally, when the ship was fully loaded,
Well, we easily put the other victims on the ship, for they were light;
Iphigenia in Tauris
The Greek expeditionary force that sailed to Troy under Agamemnon, including the army that compelled Iphigenia's sacrifice at Aulis.
Have the Achaeans returned, as reported?
For there lord Agamemnon mustered his expedition of a thousand ships of Hellas, wanting to take the crown of Troy in glorious victory and avenge the outrage to Helen’s marriage, doing this favor for Menelaus.
But no breeze from Zeus ever came, or a boat, bringing Helen here, through the rocks of the Symplegedes—Helen who destroyed me, with Menelaus, so that I might avenge myself on them, setting an Aulis here against that one there, where the Danaids overpowered me and were going to sacrifice me like a calf, and my own father was the priest.
The Histories
The Achaeans who displaced the Ionians from the Peloponnese, whose twelve territorial divisions Herodotus uses to explain the Ionian twelve-city pattern.
Peloponnese, just as there are twelve divisions of the Achaeans who drove the Ionians out— Pellene nearest to Sicyon;
Works and Days
The collective Greek host who gathered at Aulis and sailed to Troy, referenced by the narrator as the one voyage-related event he can speak of from tradition.
for never yet have I sailed by ship over the wide sea, but only to Euboea from Aulis where the Achaeans once stayed through much storm when they had gathered a great host from divine Hellas for Troy, the land of fair women.
Against Leocrates
The Greek besiegers of Troy referenced in Hector's quoted speech.
If once the Achaeans leave and sail their ships to their own land.
Isthmean
The broader Greek ethnic group associated with Castor's home and Protesilas's homeland.
Protesilas, I add besides your sacred ground in Phylace, the home of Achaean men.
Often crowning their hair with wreaths from these contests they appeared beside the streams of Dirce or near the Eurotas, the son of Iphicles, who was of the same city as the race of the Sown Men, and the son of Tyndareus, dwelling among the Achaeans in his highland home of Therapne.
Nemean
People whose upland cities set countless bronze prizes for athletes.
But it is impossible to give a full reckoning of their countless prizes of bronze—for it would require long leisure to number them—which Cleitor and Tegea and the upland cities of the Achaeans and Mount Lycaeon set by the racecourse of Zeus for men to win with the strength of their feet and hands.
Olympian
The Greek besiegers of Troy, said to have trembled before the Lycian warrior Glaucus.
And the Danaans trembled before Glaucus, when he came from Lycia;
Alcibiades 1
The Greek besiegers of Troy in Homer's Iliad, cited as an example of a people whose deaths resulted from disputes over justice and injustice.
And from this difference arose the fights and deaths of the Achaeans, and of the Trojans as well, and of the suitors of Penelope in their strife with Odysseus.
Chrestomathy
The Greek expeditionary force, restrained from returning home by Achilles.
Then, when the Achaeans were eager to return home, Achilles holds them back.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Legendary Greek returners from Troy invoked in the Scionaeans' account of their own foundation.
Now these Scionaeans say that they are Palleneans from the Peloponnese, and that their first founders, while on their voyage from Troy, were carried to this place by the storm which the Achaeans experienced, and there took up their abode.
Agesilaus
Greek allies who appeal to Agesilaus for help against the Acarnanians.
After these events, the Achaeans, who were zealous advocates of the alliance, begged him to join them in an expedition against Acarnania.