Quotes About Achaeans

Non mi piacciono i regali" mormorò Corso, cupo. "Una volta dei tipi accettarono un certo cavallo di legno. Artigianato acheo, c'era scritto sull'etichetta. Che idioti.

Sing, goddess, of Achilles' ruinous anger Which brought ten thousand pains to the Achaeans, And cast the souls of many stalwart heroes To Hades, and their bodies to the dogs And birds of prey.

for which I suffered much hardship, which the sons of the Achaeans gave me!

and beseeched all the Achaeans

Canta, diosa, de Aquiles el Pelida ese resentimiento -¡que mal haya!- que infligió a los aqueos mil dolores, y muchas almas de héroes esforzados precipitó al Hades...

Achaeans largely took over the south-eastern coast of Italy. This country is popularly supposed to have been given its name by the Greeks: Italia would be the land of (w)italoí, 'yearling cattle', a dialectal variant of etaloí, later borrowed in fact into Latin as vituli, and still with us in the word veal.

Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son Achilles, a destroying wrath which brought upon the Achaeans myriad woes, and sent forth to Hades many valiant souls of heroes.

There is no reason to blame the Trojans and the well-greaved Achaeans that for such a woman [Helen] they long suffer woes.

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.