What is "achaian"

Usage examples of "achaian".

She prayed the armies of the Achaians would strangle Ilion, as the hound strangled the hare.

When the stories arrived of curses laid on the Achaian kings, Penelope felt no surprise.

If she let Telemachos leave Ithaka, with the gods so wroth against the Achaian kings, she would never see her son again.

Nay, as mine own soul liveth, there is one That will not set thy barren beauty free, But slay thee to Poseidon and the Sun Before a ship Achaian takes the sea!

Singer was generally to be found, where there was an outcrop of rock to provide some shelter from the wind, in the open space between the Cretan, Locrian and Achaian encampments.

The scenery around it will always make it delightful, while the associations connected with the Achaian League, and the important events which have happened in the vicinity, will ever render the site interesting.

Xenias is already here with another four thousand men-at-arms, and Sophainetos, Socrates the Achaian and Pasion are coming soon with a few thousand more.

Somehow I had received that dagger from Odysseus, king of Ithaca, in the Achaian camp outside the walls of Troy.

Neoptolemos and his grandson are killed in this pointless blood feud, his line will end here in the Achaian age.

Troy to beat the Achaian Greeks and go on to establish an empire that would link Asia and Europe.

Well, and they are Hellene all, but there is mainland Achaian blood in the House of Minos, and has been since the time of my namesake.

Arachova, proceeding toward Delphi, the deep gorge opened, disclosing a blue glimpse of the Gulf of Corinth and the Achaian mountains.

Simply by listening, trying to understand, she thought she had a clearer picture of the world of the Achaians than most women.

Not all the kings and chieftains of the Achaians followed the accords set down by Agamemnon, but the pressure did work.

The people of Ilion stood along the tops of the walls of the city and laughed at the Achaians in discord.