Achaeans (Homer)

The Achaeans are the Greeks of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey; it is the poet's most common collective name, alongside Danaans and Argives, for the army that besieged Troy. Many scholars connect the name with Ahhiyawa, a Late Bronze Age kingdom mentioned in Hittite texts and generally placed in Mycenaean Greece. In later times Achaea was the name of a region of the northern Peloponnese.