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Ancient Greek mythological progenitor of the Achaeans
In
Greek mythology , Achaeus or Achaios (;
Ancient Greek : Ἀχαιός Akhaiós ) was a son of
Xuthus and
Creusa , and the brother of
Ion as well as the grandson of
Hellen .
[1] According to
Pausanias , he was the father of
Archander and
Architeles , who travelled from
Phthiotis to Argos and each married daughters of
Danaus .
[2]
Mythology
The
Achaeans regarded him as the author of their race, and derived from him their own name as well as that of Achaia, which was formerly called Aegialus. When his uncle
Aeolus in
Thessaly , whence he himself had come to
Peloponnesus , died, he went there and made himself master of
Phthiotis , which now also received from him the name of Achaia.
[3]
Genealogy of Hellenes
Notes
^
Brill's New Pauly ,
s.v. Achaeus (1) ;
Hesiod ,
Catalogue of Women
fr. 10.20–3 Most, pp. 52, 53 ;
Apollodorus ,
1.7.3 .
^
Pausanias ,
7.1.6
^
Apollodorus ,
1.7.3 ; Pausanias,
7.1.3 ;
Strabo ,
8.7.1
^ Grimal,
p. 531 ; Hard,
p. 702 .
References
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Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website .
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Brill , 2002.
ISBN
978-90-04-12258-1 .
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ISBN
978-0-631-20102-1 .
Internet Archive .
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ISBN
978-0-415-18636-0 .
Google Books .
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Loeb Classical Library No. 503, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Harvard University Press , 2007, 2018.
ISBN
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Online version at Harvard University Press .
Pausanias , Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
ISBN
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Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Smith, William , ed. (1870). "Achaeus (1)".
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology .