Achaeans in a sentence

Achaeans were colonizing Cyprus from 1210 to 1000 BC.

Ahhiya(wa) has been identified with the Achaeans of the Trojan War and the city of Wilusa with the legendary city of Troy (note the similarity with early Greek Ϝίλιον main Wilion, later Ἴλιον main Ilion, the name of the acropolis of Troy).

Atreids in Asia Minor Map showing the Hittite empire and the Ahhiyawa (most probably the Achaeans).

Few of the Achaeans returned safely to their homes and many founded colonies in distant shores.

He asked his mother, Thetis, to intercede with Zeus, who agreed to give the Trojans success in the absence of Achilles, the best warrior of the Achaeans.

Her plan works, and Poseidon has the ability to help the Achaeans without any problems.

He sailed with seven ships full of men to the Trojan War, where he was planning on fighting for the Achaeans.

His conclusion is based on his research on the similarity between the languages of the Achaeans and pre-historic Arcadians.

Homeric versus later use The Homeric "long-haired Achaeans" would have been a part of the Mycenaean civilization that dominated Greece from circa 1600 BC until 1100 BC.

Miletus and some other cities founded earlier by non-Greeks received populations of Mycenaean Greeks probably under the name of Achaeans.

Returns main The gods were very angry over the destruction of their temples and other sacrilegious acts by the Achaeans, and decided that most would not return home.

The Achaeans then conducted funeral games for Patroclus.

The identifications of Wilusa with Troy and of the Ahhiyawa with Homer's Achaeans remain somewhat controversial but gained enough popularity during the 1990s to be considered majority opinion.

The latter were a remnant of the Achaeans conquered "two generations before," which suggests a rise to supremacy at the end of the Dark Age rather than during and after the fall of Mycenae.

There the Achaeans raised a tumulus for him and celebrated funeral games.

When Agamemnon, to test the morale of the Achaeans, announces his intentions to depart Troy, Odysseus restores order to the Greek camp.

When Hera mentioned to Zeus that Ares's son, Ascalaphus, was killed, Ares overheard and wanted to join the fight on the side of the Achaeans, disregarding Zeus's order that no Olympic god should enter the battle, but Athena stopped him (XV.110–128).

William Prentice disagrees with both, noting archeological evidence suggests the Achaeans instead migrated from "southern Asia Minor to Greece, probably settling first in lower Thessaly " probably prior to 2000 BC.