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* Achaeus of Eretria ( born 484 BC ), tragic poet who wrote forty-five tragedies, some of whose titles are preserved
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These include Achaeus of Eretria, Nichomachus and the elder Xenocles.
Achaeus of Eretria (; born 484 BC in Euboea ) was a Greek playwright author of tragedies and satyr plays, variously said to have written 24, 30, or 44 plays, of which 19 titles are known: Adrastus, Aethon, Alcmeon, Alphesiboea, Athla, Azanes, Cycnus, Hephaestus, Iris, Linus, Eumenides, Moirai ( Fates ), Momus, Œdipus, Omphale, Philoctetes, Phrixus, Pirithous, and Theseus.
Achaeus of Eretria was regarded in antiquity as being the 2nd greatest writer of satyr plays, after Aeschylus.
Achaeus of Eretria belongs to the classic age, but is not recognized as a classic writer.
Achaeus and BC
213 BC ), sister to Laodice III, another daughter of Mithridates II of Pontus and Laodice, wife of Seleucid general Achaeus
* Achaeus ( general ) ( died 213 BC ), grandson to the above and a relative of Antiochus III the Great who was appointed governor of all the king's provinces beyond Taurus Mountains
In 216 BC Antiochus ' army marched into western Anatolia to suppress the local rebellion led by Antiochus ' own cousin Achaeus, and had by 214 BC driven him from the field into Sardis.
The citadel managed to hold out until 213 BC under Achaeus ' widow Laodice who surrendered later.
At the great marriage ceremony at Susa in the spring of 324 BC, Seleucus formally married Apama, and she later bore him at least two legitimate daughters, Laodice, Apama and a son Achaeus.
Achaeus of Syracuse (; lived 4th century BC ) was an ancient Greek tragedian native of Syracuse.
Sosibius was very unwilling to part with such a valuable asset ; but around 220 BC the Rhodians exerted themselves as intercessors on behalf of Achaeus, changing radically the situation.
Laodice (; lived in the 3rd century BC ), wife of her cousin Seleucus II Callinicus, was, according to the express statement of Polybius, she was the daughter of Andromachus and sister of Seleucid General Achaeus.
When Achaeus fell into the power of Antiochus III ( 213 BC ), Laodice was left in possession of the citadel of Sardis, in which she held out for a time, but was quickly compelled by the dissensions among her own troops to surrender to Antiochus III.
When Selge was attacked by Garsyeris, the general of Achaeus, in 218 BC, Logbasis, as having been guardian to Achaeus ' wife Laodice, was deputed by his countrymen to treat with the enemy, and used the opportunity to make a treacherous agreement for the surrender of the city.
In 220 BC, Achaeus was its king.
In 215 BC, in the war of Antiochus against Achaeus, we find Lagoras in the service of the former ; and it was through his discovery of an unguarded part of the wall of Sardis, that Antiochus was enabled to take the city, Lagoras being himself one of the select party who forced their way into the town over the portion of the wall in question.
Achaeus and ),
Each of the Greek ethne were said to be named in honor of their respective ancestors: Achaeus of the Achaeans, Danaus of the Danaans, Cadmus of the Cadmeans ( the Thebans ), Hellen of the Hellenes ( not to be confused with Helen of Troy ), Aeolus of the Aeolians, Ion of the Ionians, and Dorus of the Dorians.
* Achaeus ( son of Xuthus ), mythical founder of Achaean race
* Achaeus ( son of Seleucus I Nicator ), son of Seleucus I Nicator and brother of Antiochus I Soter
* Achaeus ( genus ), a genus of crabs
They migrated from there to Haemonia ( later called Thessaly ), where they " drove out the barbarian inhabitants " and divided the country into Phthiotis, Achaia, and Pelasgiotis, named after Achaeus, Phthius and Pelasgus, " the sons of Larissa and Poseidon.
According to Eusebius of Caesarea ( 1. 251 ), she was a daughter of Achaeus by an unnamed Greek mother.
* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, " Achaeus " ( 3 ), Boston, ( 1867 )
Achaeus and tragic
* Achaeus of Syracuse, another tragic poet who wrote ten or fourteen tragedies
Achaeus and who
Clement of Alexandria mentions Phthia, a daughter of Phoroneus, who became the mother of Achaeus by Zeus.
Her father Achaeus was a wealthy nobleman who owned estates in Anatolia.
His mother Pandora II ( named after her grandmother Pandora ) was the daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha and sister of Hellen who together with his three sons Dorus, Xuthus ( with his sons Ion and Achaeus ) and Aeolos, comprised the set of ancient tribes that formed the Greek / Hellenic nation.
Achaeus and are
Among the descendants of Hellen are mentioned Aeolus, Ion, Achaeus, Dorus, Graecos and Makedon.
Eretria and born
Menedemus was born at Eretria.
Eretria and BC
The Greek states of Athens and Eretria allowed themselves to be drawn into this conflict by Aristagoras, and during their only campaigning season ( 498 BC ) they contributed to the capture and burning of the Persian regional capital of Sardis.
Unlike the other commercial states of the 7th and 6th centuries BC, such as Corinth, Chalcis, Eretria and Miletus, Aegina founded no colonies.
In 490 BC, he sent a naval task force under Datis and Artaphernes across the Aegean, to subjugate the Cyclades, and then to make punitive attacks on Athens and Eretria.
The expedition was intended to bring the Cyclades into the Persian empire, to punish Naxos ( which had resisted a Persian assault in 499 BC ) and then to head to Greece to force Eretria and Athens to submit to Darius or be destroyed.
* When the Ionian Greeks in Asia Minor rebelled against Persia in 499 BC, Eretria joined Athens in sending aid to the rebels.
At a date no doubt previous to the foundation of Syracuse, Corfu was peopled by settlers from Corinth, probably 730 BC, but it appears to have previously received a stream of emigrants from Eretria.
The Greek city-states of Athens and Eretria had supported the unsuccessful Ionian Revolt against the Persian Empire of Darius I in 499-494 BC, led by the satrap of Miletus, Aristagoras.
In 490 BC, Eretria was utterly ruined and its inhabitants were transported to Persia.
Menedemus (; 345 / 4-261 / 0 BC ) of Eretria was a Greek philosopher and founder of the Eretrian school.
The settlement, in a location that was already occupied, is believed to have been founded in the 8th century BC by Euboean Greeks, originally from the cities of Eretria and Chalcis in Euboea, who were already established at Pithecusae ( modern Ischia ); they were led by the paired oecists ( colonizers ) Megasthenes of Chalcis and Hippocles of Cyme.
Though originally dependent on Eretria, by the 7th century BC it had become sufficiently prosperous to send out several colonies, to Chalcidice ( Acanthus, Stageira, Argilus, Sane ).
The Greek city-states of Athens and Eretria had supported the unsuccessful Ionian Revolt against the Persian Empire of Darius I in 499-494 BC.
An amphibious task force was then sent out under Datis and Artaphernes in 490 BC, successfully sacking Naxos and Eretria, before moving to attack Athens.
The mosaic is held to be a copy of either a painting by Aristides of Thebes, or of a lost late 4th century BC fresco by the painter Philoxenos of Eretria.
In 498 BC, supported by troops from Athens and Eretria, the Ionians marched on, captured, and burnt Sardis.
In the spring of 498 BC, an Athenian force of twenty triremes, accompanied by five from Eretria, set sail for Ionia.
For the Persians, the only unfinished business that remained by the end of 493 BC was to exact punishment on Athens and Eretria for supporting the revolt.
Therefore, the first Persian invasion of Greece effectively began in the following year, 492 BC, when Mardonius was dispatched ( via Ionia ) to complete the pacification of the land approaches to Greece and push on to Athens and Eretria if possible.
Aristagoras secured military support from Athens and Eretria, and in 498 BC these forces helped to capture and burn the Persian regional capital of Sardis.
In 498 BC, supported by troops from Athens and Eretria, the Ionians marched on, captured, and burnt Sardis.
The Greek city-states of Athens and Eretria had supported the unsuccessful Ionian Revolt against the Persian Empire of Darius I in 499-494 BC.
Eretria was an important Greek polis in the 6th / 5th century BC.
The first evidence for human activity in the area of Eretria are pottery shards and stone artefacts from the late Neolithic period ( 3500-3000 BC ) found on the acropolis as well as in the plain.
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