Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Achaeus.
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Achaeus (son of Xuthus)
Son of Xuthus and brother of Ion — eponymous ancestor of the Achaeans in the Hellenic stemma. Not the Seleucid general Achaeus.
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Achaeans (Homer)
Homer's name for the Greeks at Troy — the ethnic label that later genealogy traces to this Achaeus.
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Achaea (ancient region)
The northern Peloponnesian region that keeps Achaeus' name in geography — the tribal eponym as place.
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Hellen
Achaeus' grandfather through Xuthus — the stem from which Dorians, Ionians, and Achaeans branch.