Danaans
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the Danaans · Achaeans · Argives · golden-haired Danaans · mighty Danaans · sons of the Achaeans
in the texts
Odyssey
The Greek forces besieging Troy, referred to interchangeably as Danaans, Achaeans, and Argives, among whom Odysseus fought.
Tell us also why you are made unhappy on hearing about the return of the Argive Danaans from Troy.
Here the beginning of the evil started rolling down, by the will of Zeus, toward both Danaans and Trojans.
Philoctetes was the only man who could shoot better than I could when we Achaeans were before the dêmos of the Trojans.
Nemean
Collective term for the Greeks, referenced both as a people the Talaids come to lead and as the voters who award Achilles's arms to Odysseus.
For in a secret vote the Danaans favored Odysseus;
The sons of Talaus gave man-conquering Eriphyle, as a faithful pledge, in marriage to Amphiaraus son of Oicles, and became the most powerful of the golden-haired Danaans;
Olympian
The Greek forces at Troy who were turned to flight by Telephus before Patroclus's stand beside Achilles.
Locrus gave him a city and a people to govern, and strangers came to him from Argos and Thebes, from Arcadia and Pisa, But among the settlers he chiefly honored the son of Actor and Aegina, Menoetius, whose son went with the Atreidae to the plain of Teuthras, and stood alone beside Achilles, when Telephus turned to flight the mighty Danaans, and attacked their ships beside the sea, to reveal to a …
Pythian
A collective (Homeric) term for the Greeks, used in both the Philoctetes and Peleus/Achilles narratives.
And Peleus’ son, the only child whom immortal Thetis bore in Phthia, had his life taken in battle by the bow, and roused the wailing of the Danaans while his body was burning on the pyre.
They say that the god-like heroes went to bring from Lemnos that man afflicted with a wound, the archer son of Poeas, who sacked the city of Priam and brought an end to the toils of the Danaans;