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Achaeans, people of an ancient region in the northern Peloponnese, Greece. The term was broadly used by Homer to designate all the inhabitants of...

Achaean League, confederacy of 10 or 12 Peloponnesian states in ancient Greece. It was established originally by the ancient Achaeans, a...

Battles (quotations): Battles: Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts…

Again to the battle, Achaians!
Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance!
Our land, the first garden of Liberty's tree,
It has been, and shall yet be,...

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- member of ancient Hellenic people: a member of an ancient Hellenic people thought to have founded the Mycenaean civilization on the Peloponnese
- somebody from Achaea: somebody who comes from the modern Greek department of Achaea

	Advertisement Windows Live® Search Results Achaeans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Achaeans (Greek: Ἀχαιοί, Akhaioí) is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer 's Iliad (used 598 times) and Odyssey. The other names are the Danaans ... Achaeans - definition of Achaeans by the Free Online Dictionary ... A·chae·an (-k n) also A·cha·ian (-k n, -k-) n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Achaea. 2. One of a Hellenic people believed to have inhabited the Peloponnesus and to have created ... Achaeans definition of Achaeans in the Free Online Encyclopedia. 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 ... See all search results in Windows Live® Search Results

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