Aetolia
place · 5 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages
the Aetolians' country
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
The rugged, village-based territory of the Aetolian peoples, site of Demosthenes's disastrous invasion.
The Aetolians (for they had now come to the rescue of Aegitium) charged the Athenians and their allies, running down from the hills in different directions, and plied them with darts;
But the Aetolians were both aware or these preparations when he first formed his designs against them, and when the army had invaded their country they came to the rescue with a great force, all of them, so that even the most distant of the Ophionians, who stretch towards the Melian Gulf, the Borniensians and Calliensians, joined in bringing aid.
for, when harassed by the bowmen, the Aetolians, being a light-armed force, retired.
Tusculan Disputations
Greek region where the consul Nobilior campaigned, taking Ennius along.
but that no honour attached to this calling is shown by a speech of Cato's, in which he cast it up as a reproach to Marcus Nobilior that he had taken poets with him into his province — and that consul had, as we know, taken Ennius into Aetolia.
Phoenissae
Region named by Creon as the next stage of Menoeceus's planned flight from Thebes.
To Aetolia.
Suppliants
Homeland of Diomedes, named in Athena's prophecy of the future assault on Thebes.
thou too, Aegialeus, shalt take thy father’s place and in thy youth command the host, and with thee Tydeus’ son marching from Aetolia,—him whom his father named Diomedes.