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Aias and the gods.(Critical essay) College Literature (9/22/2008)
...13) possibly indicating that the Achaeans are so unsure of the outcome of the battle...1990, 260-61). But why would the Achaeans feel the need to make such a prayer...Greeks at It. 1.511 -27, but the Achaeans did not know this. At the time of the...

Shanower, Eric. Betrayal, Part One.(Betrayal, Part One)(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review) Kliatt (3/1/2008)
...the city of Troy. In this volume the Achaeans (Greeks) have not yet reached Troy...The second betrayal occurs when the Achaeans send an embassy to Troy and Menelaus...one for the Trojans, the other for the Achaeans). It contains violence, vulgarity...

Dear George ... letter from Magna Graecia. (the ancient city of Crotone, Italy, first celebrated in the 19th century George Gissing novel 'By the Ionian Sea')(Brief Article) The Economist (US) (12/6/1997)
...site of the town Kroton, founded by the Achaeans in the eighth century BC. But Gissing...on the horizon from which the original Achaeans came 2,700 years ago, a young flautist...These confirm that long before the Achaeans and Corinthians went west in the eighth...

'Troy' tramples on 'The Iliad'.(WORLD) The Christian Science Monitor (5/20/2004)
...Homer's version, the Greeks, whom he called Achaeans, are more complex. The reader is reminded...too busy throwing temper tantrums to notice Achaeans dying for his cause. So when Achaeans begin stabbing Trojans in their sleep (another...

Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories.(Book review) Canadian Journal of History (3/22/2006)
...which the "collectivities" of Rome and Greece (Aetolians, Achaeans, Macedonians) oscillate. Polybius is seen to engage in a...Roman captors and his fellow-Greeks (especially his fellow-Achaeans, some of whom preferred Macedonian hegemony to Roman rule...

Troy and Homer: Towards a Solution of an Old Mystery.(Book review) The Journal of the American Oriental Society (7/1/2005)
...a set of underground waterworks. This is a place Homer's Achaeans might well have spent ten years trying to sack. The Hittite...ethnicon A[chi][alpha][iota][omicron][iota] 'Achaeans (i.e., Mycenaean Greeks)" and the toponym Ahhiyawa...

The Trojan War: A New History.(Book review) The Historian (3/22/2009)
...is to set the traditional tale of the confrontation between Achaeans and Trojans in the context of the age in which Greeks of the...evidence illustrates the nature of the ships that carried the Achaeans across the Aegean; the types of troops and their organization...

The concept of the cosmopolitan in Greek & Roman thought. Daedalus (6/22/2008)
...communities and their colonies only start to emerge in the eighth century B.C., some five hundred years after the Bronze Age societies that Homer principally envisions. His Achaeans and their Trojan foes are fiercely partisan, but fore

The Song of the Sirens.(Poem) The American Poetry Review (11/1/2002)
...ship approaching swiftly. Then they began to sing their Siren song. "Come to us, Odysseus, you who are the pride of the Achaeans, You great man. Stay your ship's course. Listen to our Siren voice No seafarer has yet sailed past our island in his black...

Kennedy and Achilles: a classical approach to political science. PS: Political Science & Politics (9/1/1996)
...fascination with Kennedy will last as long as the ancient Greeks' obsession with Achilles. Achilles was "the best of the Achaeans," the leading figure in classical culture, the character (whether wholly or only partly mythological) with whom the Greeks...

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