The Achaeans (in Greek Ἀχαιοί, Akhaioi) 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, 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 ...
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 ...
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