Ancient Greek mythological progenitor of the Achaeans
InGreek mythology ,Achaeus orAchaios (/ə ˈ k iː ə s Ancient Greek : ἈχαιόςAkhaiós ) was a son ofXuthus andCreusa , and the brother ofIon as well as the grandson ofHellen .[ 1] Pausanias , he was the father ofArchander andArchiteles , who travelled fromPhthiotis to Argos and each married daughters ofDanaus .[ 2]
TheAchaeans 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 uncleAeolus inThessaly , whence he himself had come toPeloponnesus , died, he went there and made himself master ofPhthiotis , which now also received from him the name of Achaia.[ 3]
Genealogy of Hellenes [ edit ] ^ 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 . Apollodorus ,The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website .Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Antiquity, Volume 1 , A-Ari, editors: Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider,Brill , 2002.ISBN 978-90-04-12258-1 Online version at Brill .Grimal, Pierre ,The Dictionary of Classical Mythology , Wiley-Blackwell, 1996.ISBN 978-0-631-20102-1 Internet Archive .Hard, Robin,The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology" , Psychology Press, 2004.ISBN 978-0-415-18636-0 Google Books . Most, G. W. ,Hesiod: The Shield, Catalogue of Women, Other Fragments ,Loeb Classical Library No. 503, Cambridge, Massachusetts,Harvard University Press , 2007, 2018.ISBN 978-0-674-99721-9 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 0-674-99328-4 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library public domain : Smith, William , ed. (1870). "Achaeus (1)".Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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