Acarnania
place · 4 works · 6 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Acarnanian country · enemy's country
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
The region of western Greece allied with Athens, targeted by the joint Peloponnesian, Ambraciot, and Chaonian invasion under Cnemus.
Upon this the Amphilochians gave themselves up to the Acarnanians;
Now the Corinthians were most hearty in the cause of the Ambraciots, who were a colony of theirs;
There were with him, of the Greeks, the Ambraciots, Leucadians, Anactorians, and his own force of one thousand Peloponnesians;
Hellenica
Region campaigned through by Agesilaus, whose cities, cattle, mountains, lake country, and fields determine the campaign.
for when the Acarnanians fell back, they were speedily in safe places.
And afterwards, going about through the country, he laid it waste with axe and fire;
Now while he was sacrificing, the Acarnanians pressed them very hard with throwing stones and javelins, and coming close up to them wounded many.
Against Olympiodorus
The region to which troops were dispatched, creating an attempted ground for postponing the estate trial.
And it happened by a piece of good luck that you were persuaded by the politicians to despatch troops into Acarnania, and the defendant Olympiodorus was among those called to service, and he departed with the others on the expedition.
Euthydemus
Region named as the home of the two famous pankratiast brothers used to distinguish physical from verbal all-round combat.
They are a pair of regular all-round fighters—not in the style of the famous all-round athletes, the two brothers of Acamania;