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| | ACHAEAN LEAGUE - LoveToKnow Article on ACHAEAN LEAGUE |
 | | On the other hand, it is the glory of the Achaean league to have combined city autonomy with an organized central administration, and in this way to have postponed the entire destruction of Greek liberty for over a century. | | | Antigonus' preoccupation during the Celtic invasions, Sparta's prostration after the Chremonidean campaigns, the wealth amassed by Achaean adventurers abroad and the subsidies of Egypt, the standing foe of Macedonia, all enhanced the league's importance. | | | Only in matters of foreign politics and war was their competence restricted. |
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| | “A Well-Trimmed Ship”: |
| | The arrest of Polybius was political in nature; it was prentative more than punitive: the arrest removed Polybius from the Achaean political scene. | | | Before the birth of Polybius, any Achaean would have considered Macedonia as the great enemy of Greek freedom, as it had been for more than century. | | | 	The Romans would not forget the Achaean slight of denying help, although their revemge would take years to be realized. |
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| | Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.01.19 |
| | This historian, as a member of the ruling elite of the Achaean League in the 2nd century BC, should have been the right person to tell us everything, and in great detail, about the inner organization of his home state. | | | The potential which these states had of uniting the Greek world were visible to contemporary writers like Polybius, and they knew that a unification of Greece would have been possible only with a constitution equal or similar to that of one of the existing federal states. | | | Polybius objects strongly to this notion and compares the government of Achaea rather to the organization of a polis--a far stabler and more cohesive form of state. |
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| | WSWG 16 Sealey: Greek State Alliances |
| | In the 04c, the evidence, although scanty, suggests that there were several attempts to found local federations; for example, Xenophon (Hellenica 4:3:15) says that "the Euboeans" fought on the side of the quadruple alliance against Agesilaus at Coroneia in 0394, and the designation suggests that a Euboean federation was in existence. | | | In these one city was the recognized leader, but its predominance was not unrestricted, and the rights of the other members were to some extent guaranteed. | | | Little information has been preserved about this organization. |
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| | History of the Macedonian People from Ancient times to the Present - Part X, by Risto Stefov |
| | Sparta's bid for freedom was not only lost but Sparta herself was now forced into a new confederacy with her former enemies the Achaeans, Thessalians, Epiriotes, Acarnanians, Boeotians, Phocians and worst of all, she came under Macedonian control. | | | Sparta on the other hand, under the leadership of Cleomenes III who was unable to sit still, initiated a number of social reforms. | | | Before things could be settled however, both Philip and Attalus were recalled to their homeland to deal with yet another large Dardanian invasion. |
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| | Ancient History Sourcebook: Polybius: The Destruction of Corinth, 146 BCE |
| | Against these men he spread a report that they were in alliance with the enemy, and gave them up to the mob, who seized on them with great violence and threw them into chains. | | | Mummius was accompanied by L. Aurelius Orestes (who had been nearly murdered in the riot at Corinth), and, pitching his camp in the Isthmus, was joined by allies who raised his army to three thousand five hundred cavalry and twenty-six thousand infantry. | | | But before he could get into Scarphea Metellus caught him up, killed a large number of his men, and took one thousand prisoners. |
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| | Achaean League |
| | The leaders of the Achaean League felt threatened in their political power and economical situation as the reborn Sparta gained several victories against them. | | | In 251 Aratus - incorruptible, adventurous, persuasive, skilled in diplomacy, passionately attached to freedom and implacably ambitious for his own position - rid his native Sicyon of its tyrant and brought it into the League. | | | The best-known of the Greek confederacies was the Achaean League. |
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| | Sketches in the History of Western Philosophy |
| | The League of Corinth was created by Philip II of Macedon to control Greece, while maintaining the fiction that the Greek cities were independent. | | | As the Hellenistic Age developed, however, we have the new phenomenon of leagues which become politically and military important in their own right without being dominated by a particular member, much less some other power. | | | Both leagues were the only Greek precedent for the kind of federal structure of government that was attempted in the United States Constitution. |
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| | Index of names: Ab - Ac |
| | 227/15 The Achaeans blame Aratus for the death of Lydiades, and deny him | | | 167/16 Over a thousand of the leading Achaeans are deported to Rome. | | | 207/15 The Achaeans defeat and kill Machanidas of Sparta at Mantineia |
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| | On the Achaean League and other matters. |
| | I do wonder, though, why the Achaean League hasn't sent a delegate to counter these allegations. | | | Why would the Achaean league want to associate itself with someone whom they see as an oppressive foreign barbarian? | | | Also, I wonder what Philip of Macedon would make of the idea that the Achaean League, if what the envoy says is true, is hijacking the memory of one of his great ancestors. |
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| | Achaeans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This article is about the ancient people of the Achaeans. | | | This people has been identified with the Achaeans of the Trojan War and the city of Wilusa with the legendary city of Troy (note the similarity with Ilion, the name of the acropolis of Troy). | | | The Homeric Achaeans would have been a part of the Mycenaean civilization that dominated Greece from ca. |
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| | Chapter Lays of Ancient Rome <i>to</i> Leander of L by Brewer's Readers Handbook |
| | League of Smalkalde (December 31, 1530), the protestant states of Germany leagued against Charles Quint. | | | League of Wurtzburg (1610), formed by the catholic states of Germany against the “Protestant Union” of Hall. | | | This league was the beginning of that war which terminated in the peace of Ryswick (1698). |
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| | The Hellenic-Ionian Leagues: The First European Confederations |
| | In the end, in order to preserve the federation, Aratus had to invite the hated Macedonians to intervene and Clemonomes was defeated in 222 BCE. | | | Indeed, in theory, Alexander the Great established his world empire as president of a league of Greek states: the Corinthian League. | | | The first Achaean League had been established in the fourth century BCE, but collapsed shortly after 300 BCE. |
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| | Internal troubles led to severe political tension with Rome and the deportation of 1,000 leading Achaeans (including Polybios) to Italy after 168 BC. | | | The circulation of the Achaean triobols : The hoard evidence. | | | The twelve Achaean cities developed some sort of a federal organization united in the cult of Zeus Amarios or Homagyrios from the 5th cent. |
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| | Those who fought for the Achaean League |
| | The Achaean League (280-146 BC) was the last attempt of the Greeks to maintain their independence; it was dissolved when the corrupt generals Diaeos and Critolaos were defeated in 146 BC by the Roman general Mummius. | | | This imaginary epigram is attributed by the poet to an Achaean living in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy VIII Lathyrus, also a very turbulent age. | | | In reality, the poem was written in 1922, after Greece sustained a defeat at Asia Minor. |
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| | The Baldwin Project: The Story of the Greeks by H. A. Guerber |
| | At the age of [269] twenty, therefore, he assembled a few comrades, entered Sicyon, called all the lovers of liberty to his aid, and drove away the tyrant without shedding any blood. | | | At this time, Greece and Macedon were under the rule of Antigonus Gonatas, son of Demetrius; for this man had conquered for himself the second kingdom which his father had lost. | | | Although general of the Achæan League, and one of the greatest men of his day, Aratus was far from being rich; and, in order to obtain the required sum, he had to sell all he had, and even pawn his wife's few jewels. |
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| | Achaea |
| | The Athenians exacted harsh tributes from their former allies and when Naxos attempted to withdraw from the Delian League, which was an alliance formed against the Persians, the city was razed. | | | A league between the cities of the Peloponnesus had existed since about 550 BC, under the domination of Sparta, and the Peloponnesian League began to oppose Athens. | | | The leagues were abolished and Greece passed completely into the power of Rome, which united Macedonia and Greece to form the Roman province of Macedonia. |
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| | Cynaitha, Byzantium, the Black Sea |
| | Demetrius, whose return from his expedition to the islands had been much to his advantage indeed, but somewhat ignominious, as the Rhodians were sailing to attack him, lent a ready ear to Taurion, who had engaged to meet the expense of transporting the boats. | | | The Aetolians in the first place invited the Cleitorians to abandon their alliance with the Achaeans and form one with themselves. | | | The Achaeans readily agreed, as they felt sure that they would thus gain the goodwill of both factions, since those who were masters of the city were entirely devoted to them and the home-coming exiles would owe their safe return to the consent of the League. |
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| | The Greek city-states, which were virtually nonexistent since they had come under Macedonian rule, now started organizing themselves. | | | This did not succeed however, since it was forced to ask for Macedonian help in the war against Sparta, and thus made itself the subject of Macedonian rule. | | | The Achaean League tried to defy the Romans as a last try to be totally independent, but the Romans invaded Greece and destroyed Corinth in 146 BC. |
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| | Great Battles of History: Sellasia Background & Variant |
| | At this point, Argos rose in revolt against the Spartans, aided by Achaean forces. | | | With the League now allied to Antigonus, Ptolemy put his financial support behind Sparta. | | | Ptolemy III Eurgetes of Egypt had been supporting the Achaeans as a restraint on the power of Macedon. |
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| | ACHAEAN LEAGUE HEMIDRACHMS |
| | In 280 B.C.E., the league was again organized by the cities of Dyme, Patrae, Tritaea and Pherae in the region of Achaean. | | | But, by the middle of the 2nd century, the League began to clash with the Romans who had been their allies in several conflicts and had been instrumental in the League’s success up to that point. | | | The Achaean League was initially created in the 4th century as an organization of city-states located along the southern coast of the Gulf of Corinth, but Macedonians disbanded it before end of the century. |
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| | Achaean League -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer! |
| | This was the case with the early city leagues, such as the Achaean and Aetolian leagues in ancient Greece and the Hanseatic and the Swabian leagues in Europe; and to a... | | | It was founded in 1920 as part of the settlement that ended World War I. Weakened from the start by the refusal of the United States to join, the organization proved ineffective in defusing the hostilities that led to World War II in 1939. | | | league that first developed as an alliance of sovereign states in Boeotia, a district in east-central Greece, about 550 BC, under the leadership of Thebes. |
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| | What was Achaea ? |
| | The Achaean Confederacy was an ancient alliance established in 280 BC. | | | Polybius (a more scrupulous historian and an Achaean statesman) and other Greek leaders brought to Rome as hostages. | | | 4th Macedonian War and the war against the Achean League. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Achaean League |
| | Megalopolis, capital of the Arcadian League in the 4th century bc and part of the Achaean League beginning in the 3rd century bc. | | | Philopoemen (253?–182 bc), Greek general of the Achaean League. | | | Search for books about your topic, "Achaean League" |
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| | Achaean League War |
| | The War against the Achaean League (146 BC) | | | To prevent further harassment, Sparta, Corinth and Argos, were to be released from the League's jurisdiction. | | | Rome still gave them a chance in 147 BC to satisfy her demands, but the leaders of the League wouldn't listen and instead attempted to stir up a war of liberation against Rome (146 BC). |
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| | LEAGUE - Online Information article about LEAGUE |
| | confoederatio, from foedus, a league, foederare, to form a league) | | | United Irish League, and by numerous social organizations. | | | The name has been given to numerous confederations, such as the Achaean League (q.v.), the See also: |
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| | Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Brittanica: Sparta |
| | Nabis was assassinated in I92, and Sparta was forced by Philopoemen to enrol itself as a member of the Achaean League (q.v. | | | Eighty years after the Trojan War, according to the traditional chronology, the Dorian migration took place. | | | The battle of Sellasia (222 B.C.), in which Cleomenes was defeated by the Achaeans and Antigonus Doson of Macedonia, and the death of the king, which occurred shortly afterwards in Egypt, put an end to these hopes. |
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| | Search Results for Achaean - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The 12 Achaean cities of the northern Peloponnese had organized a league by the 4th century BC to protect themselves against... | | | Spartan king (235–222) who reorganized Sparta's political structure and struggled unsuccessfully to destroy the Achaean League. | | | Roman statesman and general who crushed the uprising of the Achaean League against Roman rule in Greece. |
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| | 146 BC |
| | Battle of Corinth - The Romans under Lucius Mummius defeat the Achaean League at Corinth. | | | Critolaus, general of the Achaean League (killed in battle) |
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| | Polybios Biography / Biography of Polybios Biography Biography |
| | Polybios was born in Megalopolis in Arcadia, the son of Lycortas, general and statesman of the Achaean League. | | | Polybios tried to maintain the independence of the League, although in 169 B.C. he was dispatched to aid the Romans (who declined his help) in their combat against Perseus of Macedon. | | | Through his father Polybios became involved early in the Achaean League, which he served both as ambassador to Egypt and as cavalry commander. |
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| | The Peloponessus |
| | This League was a renewed association, commencing in 280 BCE. | | | A republican confederation in northern Peloponessus, this state was actually the second Achaean League; the first collapsed after the death of Alexander the Great. | | | The location of Ahhiyawa is unknown; however, most scholars believe that Ahhiyawa is the Hittite word for Achaeans, pre-Doric Greeks, and that Ahhiyawa can be regarded as the loose confederation of Mycenean-age Greek cities (see Arcadia, Athens, Argos, Corinth, Delphi, Elea, Eleusina, Laconia, Mandinea, Megara, Messinia, Medea, Mycenae, Orchomenos, Thebes, Tiryns, Troezina). |
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| | Bynkershoek: Whether Individual States of the United Provinces Can Send or Receive Ambassadors |
| | That the allied states in the Achaean League did not severally possess the right of sending ambassadors, was a consequence of the facts that the sovereignty over all parts of the league in all matters lay in the common Council, and that an embassy is not considered legitimate unless it comes from the sovereign power. | | | But it would not be correct to apply this argument to the seven members of the United Provinces, whose individual states have retained their sovereignty except in some matters without which the Union could not be arranged. | | | THE Achaean League, formed from seven states, resembled in many respects our state of the United Provinces. |
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| | Peloponnesos, Achaean League - Ancient Greek Coinage - WildWinds.com |
| | Peloponnesos, Achaean League - Ancient Greek Coinage - WildWinds.com | | | Antigonea, Achaean League, AR hemidrachm, 280-146 BC, Laureate head of Zeus right. | | | Entry for Peloponnesos, Achaean league on the Digital Historia Numorum |
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| | Why was the growth of the Achaean League a concern to Sparta? | | | He had very marked prejudices and biases--in favor of Aratus and the Achaean League, against political innovation (and so hostile to Agis and Cleomenes on both counts). | | | His objective was to explain and document Rome's rise to power. |
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| | Outlines of Roman History, Chapter 17 |
| | It is true that Rome had liberated the Achaean captives who had been transported to Italy after the third Macedonian war; but these men, who had spent so much of their lives in captivity, carried back to Greece the bitter spirit which they still cherished. | | | The Greek cities became not only unfriendly to Rome, but were also at strife with one another. | | | Destruction of Corinth (B.C..—The war which now followed, for the subjugation of Greece, was at first conducted by Metellus; and afterward by Mummius, an able general but a boorish man, who hated the Greeks and cared little for their culture. |
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| | Historia Numorum Ancient Coins VII. Index Rerum |
| | Laphria, Patrae, 415; Achaean League, 416; Messene, 432. | | | Federal currency, in Sicily, 117; in Thessaly, 291, 311; in Acarnania, 328, 331, 332; in Aetolia, 334; in Phocis, 338; in Boeotia, 343, 351; in Euboea, 362; of the Achaean League, 416; in Arcadia, 444, 450; in Lycia, 688 sqq., 693 sqq. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Achaia |
| | The Achaean League was prominent in the struggle of the Greeks against Roman domination. | | | The name, before the Roman conquest in 146 B.C., of a strip of land between the gulf of Corinth in the north and Elis and Arcadia in the south, embracing twelve cities leagued together. | | | If an ad appears here that contradicts Catholic teachings, please click here to notify the webmaster. |
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| | CoinArchives.com Search Results |
| | Laureate head of Zeus Amarios right / PAL, monogram and trident around large XA monogram. | | | Thompson, Agrinion Hoard (NNM 159) -; Clerk, Achaean League Tf. |
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| | a Greek, esp. a member of the Achaean League. | | | of or pertaining to Achaea or the Achaeans. |
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| | World Today Quiz > Comment |
| | Question 205: What was the league established by the Macedonian King Philip II to gain hegemony over Greece? | | | Author: Mongoloid Cow - Category: Prehistory and Antiquity |
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