Use and reuse of the past: Case studies from Mycenaean
Achaea. In MNHMH/MNEME: Past and Memory in the Aegean Bronze Age.
The Athenians had to give up Nisaea and Pegae, as well as
Achaea and Troezen (1.115).
It's just not fair that you, our leader, have botched things up so badly for us,
Achaea's sons.
Next, Amelia Brown contributes an article on the Panhellenic sanctuaries in the Roman province of
Achaea, including the famous sanctuary at Delphi.
(17) Nicolas Toro, "Bacterial and
Achaea Group II Introns: Additional Mobile Genetic Elements in the Environment," Environmental Microbiology 5 (2003): 143-51.
(145) In particular, the experiences of Lycia and
Achaea revealed that a confederated government could hold the power to regulate individuals without destroying the sovereignty of confederacy members.
"Late Roman
Achaea: Identity and Defence," JRA 8, pp.
There is unequivocal evidence too that there was a Mycenean presence in the Troad, and the kingdom of Ahhiyawa, very likely Homer's
Achaea (mainland Greece), appears prominently as an aggressive power in contemporary diplomatic records of the Hittite king.
(54) Nero had proclaimed the freedom of the province of
Achaea in 67 C.E.; note that in Plutarch's On the Delays of Divine Vengeance (32), the cruel punishment destined for Nero is mitigated, since the gods owe him gratitude for freeing "the noblest and most beloved of Heaven."
Polycrates, in Eusebius, HE 5.24.5, `Melito the eunuch, who lived entirely in the Holy Spirit, who lies at Sardis ...'.) Koester thinks the next section of the prologue is later, but it continues, `Since there were already other gospels, that According to Matthew written in Judea, that According to Mark [written in] Italy, he was urged by the Holy Spirit to write his whole gospel among those in the regions of
Achaea, as he indicates this in the preface that there were already other writings before him ...'.