Achaeans
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Achaeans
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Name used by Homer to refer to the Greeks at Troy, Turkey and other places. Perhaps applicable to Bronze Age communities in the region that are known archaeologically as the Mycenaean.
Achaeans, people of ancient Greece, of unknown origin. In Homer, the Achaeans are specifically a Greek-speaking people of S Thessaly. Historically, they seem to have appeared in the Peloponnesus during the 14th and 13th cent. B.C., and c.1250 B.C. they became the ruling class. There is no sharp line of separation between the earlier Mycenaean civilization and the Achaean; the cultures seem to have intermingled. The invasions of the Dorians supposedly forced some of the Achaeans out to Asia Minor; others were concentrated in the region known in classical times as Achaea.
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Achaeans
Achaeans or Achaean refers to the inhabitants or characteristics of the people of Achaea in Greece. However, the meaning of Achaea changed during the course of Ancient history, and thus, Achaeans/Achaean may mean:
- Achaeans (Homer), a name used by Homer in the Iliad for Mycenaean-era Greeks in general
- Achaeans (tribe), one of the major tribes of Greece according to the Hesiodic foundation myth
- Achaea (ancient region), historical inhabitants, during the Archaic and Classical periods, of the Peloponnesian region of Achaea
- Achaea Phthiotis, a central Greek region throughout the ancient Greek period
- Achaean League
- Achaea, the modern Greek prefecture
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