Citations:Achillean

English citations of Achillean

3rd century BCE, Theocritus, Idyll XXIX:
"You should think of this and be pleasanter toward me, and love me as guilelessly as I love you, so that when you are a man we may be Achillean friends to each other." Theocritus, Moschus, Bion, edited and translated by Neil Hopkinson, Cambridge MA - London (2015)
1883, John Addington Symonds, A Problem in Greek Ethics, page 21:
At Chaeronea, Greek liberty, Greek heroism, and Greek love, properly so-called, expired. It is not unworthy of notice that the son of the conqueror, young Alexander, endeavoured to revive the tradition of Achilleian friendship. [...] Homer was his invariable companion upon his marches; in the Troad he paid special honour to the tomb of Achilles, running naked races round the barrow in honour of the hero [...]. The historians of his life relate that, while he was indifferent to women, he was madly given to the love of males. This the story of his sorrow for Hephaistion sufficiently confirms.

1986, Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster, John H. Betts, J. T. Hooker, John Richard Green, Studies in Honour of T.B.L. Webster, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Incorporated (→ISBN)
The Dwarf Painter was a follower of the Achilles Painter, but there are contacts between the Achilleans and the Polygnotans, from whom the Kleophon Painter issued, and certainly there are likenesses in the works of the Kleophon and ...
1997, Richard T. Neer, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The J. Paul Getty Museum: Fascicule 7, Getty Publications (→ISBN), page 51:
Especially close are the drooping contour of the nose and the use, unusual for Achilleans, of a double line for the upper eyelid.

2005, Jane Gregory, Fred Hoyle's Universe, Oxford University Press on Demand (→ISBN), page 152:
While on Achilles, some of the astronauts are possessed by the spirits of the Achilleans, and the spirit that survives the trip back to Earth passes from astronaut Mike Fawsett into the body of his lover Cathy, the wife of the discoverer of Achilles, ...

1903, Cassell's Magazine, page 266:
The Achilleans mistook his purpose, and marched up with their own birds under their arms, eager to accept what they thought was the challenge of a sportsmanlike stranger. - Thus goes the winter in mild, salubrious Achill; and when the spring ...

1842, George Johnston, A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes, page 25:
The loose sponges are the largest, and the thick close ones the softest, for the Achilleans are firmer than these last. But, in general, those which grow in deep and still water are the softest; for the wind and waves harden sponges ...