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ACHAIA (Ancient country) GREECE
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Iones, Ionians; one of the two great original divisions of the Hellenic race, the other being the Doric. Their ancestors at an early period spread over the coasts of Asia Minor, and there established a people of great commercial and intellectual activity, while the ancestors of the Dorians settled in the highlands of Northern Greece. In Asia the Ionians came into close contact with the Semitic peoples, especially at Miletus, and from them received an impulse towards civilization which they in turn imparted to their kinsmen on the other side of the Aegaean. Their name (under the form Iaones) occurs only once in the Iliad, but not long after this we find them in Attica and in a part of the Peloponnesus. Their name was by them derived from that of the mythical Ion, adopted son of Xuthus. The Oriental peoples called the Greeks indiscriminately by the name "Ionians".
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Dec 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
AKARNANIA (Ancient area) ETOLOAKARNANIA
(Leleges). An ancient race, frequently mentioned with the Pelasgians as the prehistoric inhabitants of Greece. The Leleges were described as a warlike and migratory race, who first took possession of the coasts and the islands of Greece, and afterwards penetrated into the interior. Piracy was probably their chief occupation; and they are represented as the ancestors of the Teleboans and the Taphians, who were notorious for their piracies. The name of the Leleges was derived by the Greeks from an ancestor, Lelex, who is called king of either Megaris or Lacedaemon. They must be regarded as a branch of the great Indo-Germanic race, who became gradually incorporated with the Hellenes, and thus ceased to exist as an independent people. They are spoken of as inhabiting Acarnania and Aetolia, and afterwards Phocis, Locris, Boeotia, Megaris, Elis, and Laconia, which last was originally called Lelegia; also (in Asia Minor) Ionia, the southern part of the Troad, and Caria.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ETOLIA (Ancient area) ETOLOAKARNANIA
The Evenus River begins in the territory of those Bomians who live in the country of the Ophians, the Ophians being an Aetolian tribe (like the Eurytanians and Agraeans and Curetes and others), and flows at first, not through the Curetan country, which is the same as the Pleuronian, but through the more easterly country, past Chalcis and Calydon; and then, bending back towards the plains of Old Pleuron and changing its course to the west, it turns.
The Apodoti, Ophionenses, and Eurytanes, inhabited only the central districts of Aetolia, and did not occupy any part of the plain between the Evenus and the Achelous, which was the abode of the more civilized part of the nation, who bore no other name than that of Aetolians. The Apodoti (Apodotoi, Thuc. iii. 94; Apodotoi, Pol. xvii. 5) inhabited the mountains above Naupactus, on the borders of Locris. They are said by Polybius not to have been Hellenes. (Comp. Liv. xxxii. 34.) North of these dwelt the Ophionenses or Ophienses (Ophioneis, Thuc. l. c.; Ophieis, Strab. pp. 451,465), and to them belonged the smaller tribes of the Bomienses (Bomies, Thuc. iii. 96; Strab. p. 451; Steph. Byz. s. v. Bomoi) and Callienses (Kallies, Thuc. l.c.), both of which inhabited the ridge of Oeta running down towards the Malic gulf: the former are placed by Strabo (l. c.) at the sources of the Evenus, and the position of the latter is fixed by that of their capital town Callium. The Eurytanes (Eurutanes, Thuc. iii. 94, et alii) dwelt north of the Ophionenses, as far, apparently, as Mt. Tymphrestus, at the foot of which was the town Oechalia, which Strabo describes as a place belonging to this people. They are said to have possessed an oracle of Odysseus. (Strab. pp, 448, 451, 465; Schol. ad Lycophr. 799.)
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The Agraei, who inhabited the north-west corner of Aetolia, bordering upon Ambracia, were not a division of the Aetolian nation, but a separate people, governed at the time of the Peloponnesian war by a king of their own, and only united to Aetolia at a later period. The Aperanti, who lived in the same district, appear to have been a subdivision of the Agraei. Pliny (iv. 3) mentions various other peoples as belonging to Aetolia, such as the Athamanes, Tymphaei, Dolopes, &c.; but this statement is only true of the later period of the Aetolian League, when the Aetolians had extended their dominion over most of the neighbouring tribes of Epirus and Thessaly.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Apollodorus, also, says that, according to history, the Hyantes left Boeotia and settled among the Aetolians.
(Perseus Project - Strabo, Geography 10.3.4)
ILIA (Ancient country) GREECE
The Caucones are mentioned among the most ancient inhabitants of Greece.
(Strab. vii. p. 321.) As they disappeared in the historical period, little could
be known respecting them; but according to the general opinion they were the most
ancient inhabitants of that part of Peloponnesus, which was afterwards called
Elis. Strabo says that they were a migratory Arcadian people, who settled in Elis,
where they were divided into two principal tribes, of which one dwelt in Triphylia,
and the other in Hollow Elis. The latter extended as far as Dyme in Achaia, in
the neighbourhood of which there was a tributary of the Teutheas bearing the name
of Caucon. (Strab. viii. pp. 342, 345, 353.) The Caucones in Triphylia are mentioned
by Homer, and are called by Herodotus the Pylian Caucones. (Hom. Od. iii. 366;
Herod. i. 147.) They were driven out of Triphylia by the Minyae. (Herod. iv. 148.)
ACHAIA (Ancient country) GREECE
In the 12th century B.C. the Dorians invaded Argolis and Laconia and drove away the Achaeans, who settled at the NW part of the Peloponnese and named it Achaea
The Achaeans were the most powerful tribe in the Trojan War and Homer, usually, refers by this name to all the Greeks (Il. 1.2, Od. 1.90 etc.)
They lived in Thessaly and mainly in Achaia Phthiotis (Il. 2.684).
Achaei (Achaioi), one of the four races into which the Hellenes are usually divided. In the heroic age they are found in that part of Thessaly in which Phthia and Hellas were situated, and also in the eastern part of Peloponnesus, more especially in Argos and Sparta. Argos was frequently called the Achaean Argos (Argos Achaiikon, Hom. Il. ix. 141) to distinguish it from the Pelasgian Argos in Thessaly; but Sparta is generally mentioned as the head-quarters of the Achaean race in Peloponnesus. Thessaly and Peloponnesus were thus the two chief abodes of this people; but there were various traditions respecting their origin, and a difference of opinion existed among the ancients, whether the Thessalian or the Peloponnesian Achaeans were the more ancient. They were usually represented as descendants of Achaeus, the son of Xuthus and Creusa, and consequently the brother of Ion and grandson of Hellen. Pausanias (vii. 1) related that Achaeus went back to Thessaly, and recovered the dominions of which his father, Xuthus, had been deprived; and then, in order to explain the existence of the Achaeans in Peloponnesus, he adds that Archander and Architeles, the sons of Achaeus, came back from Phthiotis to Argos, married the two daughters of Danaus, and acquired such influence at Argos and Sparta, that they called the people Achaeans after their father Achaeus. On the other hand, Strabo in one passage says, that Achaeus having fled from Attica, where his father Xuthus had settled, settled in Lacedaemon and gave to the inhabitants the name of Achaeans. In another passage, however, he relates, that Pelops brought with him into Peloponnesus the Phthiotan Achaeans, who settled in Laconia. It would be unprofitable to pursue further the variations in the legends; but we may safely believe that the Achaeans in Thessaly were more ancient than those in Peloponnesus, since all tradition points to Thessaly as the cradle of the Hellenic race. There is a totally different account, which represents the Achaeans as of Pelasgic origin. It is preserved by Dionysius of Halicarnassus (i. 17), who relates that Achaeus, Phthius, and Pelasgus were sons of Poseidon and Larissa; and that they migrated from Peloponnesus to Thessaly, where they divided the country into three parts, called after them Achaia, Phthiotis and Pelasgiotis. A modern writer is disposed to accept this tradition so far, as to assign a Pelasgic origin to the Achaeans, though he regards the Phthiotan Achaeans as more ancient than their brethren in the Peloponnesus.The only fact known in the earliest history of the people, which we can admit with certainty, is their existence as the predominant race in the south of Thessaly, and on the eastern side of Peloponnesus. They are represented by Homer as a brave and warlike people, and so distinguished were they that he usually calls the Greeks in general Achaeans or Panachaeans (Panachaioi Il. ii. 404, vii. 73, &c.). In the same manner Peloponnesus, and sometimes the whole of Greece, is called by the poet the Achaean land. (Achaiis gaia, Hom. Il. i. 254, Od. xiii. 249.) On the conquest of Peloponnesus by the Dorians, 80 years after the Trojan war, the Achaeans were driven out of Argos and Laconia, and those who remained behind were reduced to the condition of a conquered people. Most of the expelled Achaeans, led by Tisamenus, the son of Orestes, proceeded to the land on the northern coast of Peloponnesus, which was called simply Aegialus (Aigialos) or the Coast, and was inhabited by Ionians. The latter were defeated by the Achaeans and crossed over to Attica and Asia Minor, leaving their country to their conquerors, from whom it was henceforth called Achaia. (Strab. p. 383; Pans. vii. 1; Pol. ii. 41; comp. Herod. i. 145.) The further history of the Achaeans is given under Achaia. The Achaeans founded several colonies, of which the most celebrated were Croton and Sybaris.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ANAKTORION (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
A people of N.W. Greece, fight at Plataea, removed to Nicopolis by Augustus.
EPII LAND (Ancient country) ILIA
People of Elis called E. after Epeus, share their lands with Aetolians.
Of Aetolian origin, called after Eleus, formerly called Epeans, most law-abiding people in Peloponnese, Polyxenus, king of the, their wars, send forty ships to Trojan war, contend with Pisans for management of Olympic games, at war with Pisans, aid Messenians in Second Messenian war, war of Herakles with the, alliance of E. with Athenians, Argives, and Mantineans, at war with Lacedaemonians, forced to dismantle walls of their city, at war with Arcadians, march with Thebans against Sicyon, revolt from Macedonia, dedicate image of Zeus at Olympia and image of Athena, do not compete at Isthmian games, consult oracle of Ammon in Libya, only people who worship Hades, sacrifice once a month on all altars at Olympia, Elean women bewail Achilles at sunset, Elean antiquaries, ancient writings of Eleans, Elean register of Olympic victors, Elean tribes.
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ETOLIA (Ancient area) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Called after Aetolus, Elis the only Aetolian part of the Peloponnese, their muster for the Trojan war, at enmity with Acarnanians, settled in Elis, helped by Agesilaus, march against Thessalians, attacked by Achaeans, harassed by Philip, son of Demetrius, resist Gauls, Aetolian confederacy dedicates statue of Cylon at Olympia, offerings at Delphi, Aetolians transferred to Nicopolis by Augustus.
ILIA (Ancient country) GREECE
Of Aetolian origin, called after Eleus, formerly called Epeans, most law-abiding people in Peloponnese, Polyxenus, king of the, their wars, send forty ships to Trojan war, contend with Pisans for management of Olympic games, at war with Pisans, aid Messenians in Second Messenian war, war of Herakles with the, alliance of E. with Athenians, Argives, and Mantineans, at war with Lacedaemonians, forced to dismantle walls of their city, at war with Arcadians, march with Thebans against Sicyon, revolt from Macedonia, dedicate image of Zeus at Olympia and image of Athena, do not compete at Isthmian games, consult oracle of Ammon in Libya, only people who worship Hades, sacrifice once a month on all altars at Olympia, Elean women bewail Achilles at sunset, Elean antiquaries, ancient writings of Eleans, Elean register of Olympic victors, Elean tribes.
KLITOR (Ancient city) KALAVRYTA
They had dedicated an image of Zeus at Olympia.
AGREA (Ancient city) ETOLOAKARNANIA
Agraei (Atraioi, Thuc. iii. 106; Strab. p. 449: Agraeis, Pol. xvii.
5; Steph. Byz. s. v.), a people in the NW. of Aetolia, bounded on the W. by Acarnania,
from which it was separated by Mount Thyamus (Spartovuni); on the NW. by the territory
of Argos Amphilochicum; and on the N. by Dolopia. Their territory was called Agrais,
or Agyraea (Agrai-idos, Thuc. iii. 111; Agraia, Strab. p. 338), and the river
Achelous flowed through the centre of it. The Agraei were a non-Hellenic people,
and at the commencement of the Peloponnesian war were governed by a native king,
called Salynthius, who is mentioned as an ally of the Ambraciots, when the latter
were defeated by the Acarnanians and Demosthenes in B.C. 426. Two years afterwards
(424) Demosthenes marched against Salynthius and the Agraei, and compelled them
to join the Athenian alliance. Subsequently they became subject to the Aetolians,
and are called an Aetolian people by Strabo. (Thuc. ii. 102, iii. 106, 114, iv.
77; Strab. p. 449; Pol. xvii. 5; Liv. xxxii. 34.) This people is mentioned by
Cicero (in Pison. 37), under the name of Agrinae, which is perhaps a corrupt form.
Strabo (p. 338) mentions a village called Ephyra in their country; and Agrinium
would also appear from its name to have been one of their towns. The Aperanti
were perhaps a tribe of the Agraei. The Agraei were a different people from the
Agrianes, who lived on the borders of Macedonia.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ALIFIRA (Ancient city) ILIA
At this festival they sacrifice first to Fly-catcher, praying to the hero over the victims and calling upon the Fly-catcher. When they have done this the flies trouble them no longer.
VOURA (Ancient city) DIAKOPTO
Buraicus (Bouraikos), a surname of Heracles, derived from the Achaean town of
Bura, near which he had a statue on the river Buraicus, and an oracle in a cave.
Persons who consulted this oracle first said prayers before the statue, and then
took four dice from a heap which was always kept ready, and threw them upon a
table. These dice were marked with certain characters, the meaning of which was
explained with the help of a painting which hung in the cave. (Paus. vii. 25.6.)
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