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2 unusual facts about Achaeus


Achaeus

Achaeus of Eretria (born 484 BC), tragic poet who wrote forty-five tragedies, some of whose titles are preserved

Achaeus of Syracuse, another tragic poet who wrote ten or fourteen tragedies


213 BC

Achaeus, Seleucid general and later separatist ruler of most of Anatolia until his defeat and execution by the Seleucid king Antiochus III

Hellen

According to the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, his sons were themselves progenitors of primary tribes of Greece: Aeolus the Aeolians, Dorus the Dorians, and Xuthus the Achaeans and Ionians through his sons Achaeus and Ion.


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