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Definition of Achaian
1. Noun. A member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric Greeks.
Definition of Achaian
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of Achaean) ¹
2. Noun. (alternative spelling of Achaean) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Achaian
Literary usage of Achaian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Federal Government in Greece and Italy by Edward Augustus Freeman, John Bagnell Bury (1893)
"tjons of She first united herself to the Achaian body, and then—our first ...
No greater gain ^tn^ne did the Achaian Union ever make than this which gave ..."
2. Homeric Synchronism: An Enquiry Into the Time and Place of Homer by William Ewart Gladstone (1876)
"THE Achaian LINK. Early in the present century, Damm observed, in his ' Lexicon
... That the Achaian name was the proper national name, for that epoch, ..."
3. Democracy in Europe: A History by Thomas Erskine May (1878)
"As in Athens— the highest type of pure democracy—the sovereign power was vested
in the assembly, so in the Achaian League, the like power was exercised by ..."
4. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1878)
"The poems which formed the basis of our great epics on Troy were, as Curtius
argues, Achaian ballads ; but'they were put into', their present form, ..."
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