Achaeans

Tudhaliyas IV (c. 1250–1225) was almost continuously at war in western Anatolia: fighting the kings of Arzawa, as well as the Ahhiyawa (probably Achaeans from the Greek mainland).

c. The Hattians and the Hittites 2001

I know not if Odysseus was thus clothed upon at home, or if one of his fellows gave him the raiment as he went on board the swift ship, or even it may be some stranger, seeing that to many men was Odysseus dear, for few of the Achaeans were his peers.

Book XIX Homer 1909

The mediation of the Achaeans was the more effectual of the two, because in case they failed to obtain peace for the Boeotians they were resolved to fight by the side of the Romans.

The History of Rome, Vol. V 1905

We must make haste before he can call the Achaeans in assembly; he will lose no time in doing so, for he will be furious with us, and will tell all the world how we plotted to kill him, but failed to take him.

The Odyssey 1900

I know not if Odysseus was thus clothed upon at home, or if one of his fellows gave him the raiment as he went on board the swift ship, or even it may be some stranger, seeing that to many men was Odysseus dear, for few of the Achaeans were his peers.

The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878

Whether we regard the Achaeans as "Celts," with Mr. Ridgeway, victors over an Aryan people, the Pelasgic Mycenaeans; or whether, with Mr. Hall, we think that the Achaeans were the Aryan conquerors of a non-Aryan people, the makers of the Mycenaean civilisation; in the stress of a conquest, followed at no long interval by an expulsion at the hands of Dorian invaders, there would be little thought of archaising among Achaean poets.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

The difficulty of the theory is increased, if we suppose that the Achaeans were the recent conquerors of the Mycenaeans.

Homer and His Age Andrew Lang 1878

We must make haste before he can call the Achaeans in assembly; he will lose no time in doing so, for he will be furious with us, and will tell all the world how we plotted to kill him, but failed to take him.

The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

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; I will also conduct him to

The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

If there is any meaning in the words of the herald in which you ordered that the Achaeans should be the first of all the Greeks to be free; if our treaty is still in force; if the terms of amity and alliance are kept equally for both sides, why should I not ask what you Romans did when you took Capua, as you demand from us an account for what we Achaeans did to the Lacedaemonians, after we had conquered them in war?

The History of Rome, Vol. V 1905