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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Mythical, patronymic, father of PHTHIUS and grandfather of ARCHANDER (2.98.2). Achaeus is the eponymous ancestor of the Achaeans (cf. Apollod. Bibl. 1.7.3; Paus. 7.1; Strabo 8.7.1/C383), one branch of the Greek ethnic tree, probably invented during the ARCHAIC AGE when the Hellenic GENEALOGIES developed. Earlier, HOMER had used “Achaeans” as one of his names (along with Argives and Danaans) for the Greeks as a whole.

SEE ALSO: Achaeans (Peloponnesian); Achaeans of Phthiotis; Ethnicity