Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Achaea

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870)
Various Authors, edited by William Smith

Achaea

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2561077Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology — Achaea1870Various Authors

ACHAEA (Ἀχαία), a surname of Demeter by which she was worshipped at Athens by the Gephyraeans who had emigrated thither from Boeotia. (Herod, v. 61; Plut. Is. et Osir. p. 378, d.)

2. A surname of Minerva worshipped at Luceria in Apulia where the donaria and the arms of Diomedes were preserved in her temple. ( Aristot. Mirab. Narrat. 117.)[L. S.]