Hesiod says that she was seduced by Hippostratus the son of Amarynces and that her father Hipponous sent her from Olenus in
Achaea to Oeneus because he was far away from Hellas, bidding him kill her.
Ulysses and I were in the house, inside, and heard all that he said to you; for we came to the fair house of Peleus while beating up recruits throughout all
Achaea, and when we got there we found Menoetius and yourself, and Achilles with you.
Finds of the geometric period in the Mycenaean cemetery at Agios Vasileios, Chalandritsa,
Achaea. The Annual of the British School at Athens 109:129-157.
Similarly, Shanker and Dhyani reported Pachycoris klugii, Agonosoma trilineatum, Scutellaria baicalensis, Pempelia morosalis, Stomphastis thraustica,
Achaea janata and Oxycetonia versicolor are the major insect pests of jatropha and Stegodyphus sp., Pseudotelenomus pachycoris, Beauveria bassiana, Metarhizium anisopliae and Leptoglossus zonatus are reported some of their biological control agents [11].
Juss against semilooper
Achaea Janata Linn, infesting castor in the field.
"According to legend, the Christian apostle and martyr Saint Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland, was crucified on an X-shaped cross at Patras (Patrae), in
Achaea. Use of the familiar iconography of his martyrdom, showing the apostle bound to an X-shaped cross, first appears in the Kingdom of Scotland in 1180 during the reign of William I.
Corinth was very much under Roman control as, from 44, the administrative centre of the province of
Achaea. (10) Roman influence is reflected in the high incidence of inscriptions in Latin, and the strong presence of the cult of the deified Julius Caesar and other members of the imperial family, plus the cult of Roma.
A total of 13 different insect pests which were categorized as major (Ancylis sativa, Euproctis fraterna and Adoretus pallens), minor (Scirtothrips dorsalis, Amrasca biguttula biguttula, Myllocerus discolor,
Achaea janata, Agrotis biconica and Aphis gossypii) and occasional (Oxycareous hyalinipennis, Dichromorpha viridis, Tarucus balkanicus and Orgyia postica) based on overall population of two years.
(19) And in the Apollodorus Epitome 2.5 the race Hippodameia's suitors had to run against Oenomaus is from Olympia to Corinth (a distance of over 180 kilometers) from west to east along a line that would separate the whole of
Achaea, most of Elis and parts of Arcadia and Corinth from the rest of the Peloponnesus.