During the Achaean council held, Agamemnon asked for a volunteer to spy on the Trojans.

However, the Achaean council was suspicious of Lydiadas ' tyrannical past, so he lost much of his political support.

The Achaean council invited him to Argos for talks but Cleomenes brought his entire army to Lerna, which was a distance of 4 km from Argos.

In Aegium, the Achaean council approved this.

Diomedes, Nestor and Odysseus were some of the greatest Achaean strategists.

Diomedes responded that it was part of Agamemnon's tasks as a leader to urge forward the Achaean soldiers, and that men of valour should have no problem withstanding such insults.

In Aulis, where Achaean leaders gathered, Diomedes met his brother in arms Odysseus, with whom he shared several adventures.

When he decided to sacrifice his daughter to Artemis, Diomedes and Odysseus were among the few Achaean officers familiar with his plans.

In Book VII, Diomedes was among the nine Achaean warriors who came forward to fight Hector in a single combat.

On their way to the Trojan camp, Diomedes and Odysseus discovered Dolon approaching the Achaean camp.

Diomedes wanted to avenge Thersites, but the other leaders persuaded the two mightiest Achaean warriors against fighting among themselves.

The city states of this region later formed a confederation known as the Achaean League which was influential during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.

According to Pausanias, writing in the 2nd century AD, the term ' Achaean ' was originally given to those Greeks inhabiting the Argolis and Laconia.

The Achaean kingdoms disappeared, and the Hittite empire was destroyed.

After the death of Aegimius, his two sons, Pamphylus and Dymas, voluntarily submitted to Hyllus ( who was, according to the Dorian tradition in Herodotus V. 72, really an Achaean ), who thus became ruler of the Dorians, the three branches of that race being named after these three heroes.

His minor role in the Epic Cycle narrating the Trojan War was of warning the Trojans in vain against accepting the Trojan Horse from the Greeks —" A deadly fraud is this ," he said, " devised by the Achaean chiefs!

In Peloponnese it was succeeded later by the Achaean League.

He was the son of Lycortas, a Greek politician who became Cavalry Commander of the Achaean League.

Polybius was born around 200 BC in Megalopolis, Arcadia, at which time was an active member of the Achaean League.

In 182 BC, he was given quite an honor when he was chosen to carry the funeral urn of Philopoemen, one of the most eminent Achaean politicians of his generation.

Lycortas attracted the suspicion of the Romans, and Polybius subsequently was one of the 1, 000 Achaean nobles who were transported to Rome as hostages in 167 BC, and was detained there for 17 years.

When the Achaean hostages were released in 150 BC, Polybius was granted leave to return home, but the next year he went on campaign with Scipio Aemilianus to Africa, and was present at the capture of Carthage, which he later described.

Sinon, an Achaean spy, signaled the fleet stationed at Tenedos when " it was midnight and the clear moon was rising " and the soldiers from inside the horse emerged and killed the guards.

Spartan political independence was put to an end when it was eventually forced into the Achaean League.

They show that the Macedonian institutions were near to those of the Greek federal states, like the Aetolian and Achaean leagues, whose unity was reinforced by the presence of the king.

After the death of Aegimius, his two sons, Pamphylus and Dymas, voluntarily submitted to Hyllus ( who was, according to the Dorian tradition in Herodotus V. 72, really an Achaean ), who thus became ruler of the Dorians, the three branches of that race being named after these three heroes.

Founded circa 710 BC as the Achaean colony of Croton (; ), it was known as Cotrone from the Middle Ages until 1928, when its name was changed to the current one.

He told them that the horse was made so big that the Trojans would not be able to move it into their city, because if they did they would be invincible to later Achaean invasion.

He was also an Achaean spy that told the Greeks when the soldiers in the horse had begun their fight.

In the first place you attacked me before all the Danaans and said that I was a coward and no soldier ...'" Achaean council-Book IX

Dolon proved to be the better runner but Athena infused fresh strength into the son of Tydeus for she feared some other Achaean might earn the glory of being first to hit Dolon.

Ptolemaios is first attested in Homer's Iliad and is the name of an Achaean warrior, son of Piraeus, father of Eurymedon.

The same policy which had led to its foundation would naturally unite it in the bonds of a close alliance with the other Achaean cities, Sybaris and Crotona ; and the first occasion on which we meet with its name in history is as joining with these two cities in a league against Siris, with the view of expelling the Ionian colonists of that city.

Lycortas of Megalopolis was a politician of the Achaean League active in the first half of the 2nd century BC.

The Phoenician name of the people recalls one of the Homeric names of the Greeks, Danaoi with the-m plural, whereas the Luwian name Hiyawa probably goes back to Hittite Ahhiyā ( wa ), which is, according to most interpretations, the " Achaean ", or Mycenaean Greek, settlement in Asia Minor.

He was one of the primary defenders when most of the other Achaean heroes were injured, and even fought Hector briefly and repulsed his attack.

Tegea was listed in Homer's Catalogue of Ships as one of the cities that contributed ships and men for the Achaean assault on Troy.

Aratus, one of the major Achaean strategoi and statesmen was known for his use of light forces for irregular operations, a type of warfare suited to the thureophoroi but not suited to operations in the open field.

Boura ( also Bura, Bira ; ), was an ancient city of Achaea, Greece, one of the 12 cities of the Achaean League.

If we set you free tonight, there is nothing to prevent your coming down once more to the Achaean ships, either to play the spy or to meet us in open fight.

Once there, he compelled the Spartans to join the Achaean League.

Though there is some recognition that Polybius was to an extent following an Achaean bias in his portrayal of the League thus, many modern historians have accepted this portrayal as in the main justified.

Historically speaking ; there is no doubt that Metapontum was a Greek city founded by an Achaean colony ; but various traditions assigned to it a much earlier origin.

Whether there may have really been a settlement on the spot more ancient than the Achaean colony, we have no means of determining ; but we are told that at the time of the foundation of this city the site was unoccupied ; for which reason the Achaean settlers at Crotona and Sybaris were desirous to colonize it, in order to prevent the Tarentines from taking possession of it.