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Achaea

noun
1.
A region of ancient Greece on the north coast of the Peloponnese.





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... 200 B.C., and was chiefly celebrated as an epic poet. Besides mythological epics, he wrote metrical histories of Thessaly, Elis, Achaea, and Messene; Pausinias quotes verses from the last of these, /Messen./ i. 6, xvii. 11. Seutonius, /Tiberius/, c. 70, mentions him along with Euphorion as having been greatly admired by Tiberius. There are nine epigrams by him, erotic and dedicatory, in the Palatine Anthology, and another ...
— Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology • J. W. Mackail


Words linked to "Achaea" :   Hellenic Republic, region, Ellas, part, Greece


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