Achaean League
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The Achaean League was a Hellenistic-era confederation of Greek city-states on the northern and central Peloponnese. The league was named after the region of Achaea in the northwestern Peloponnese, wh
ACHAIA, Achaian League. Anonymous. Circa 250 BC. AR Hemidrachm (16mm, 2.64 g, 2h). Laureate head of Zeus right / AX monogram in wreath.
Last Day of Corinth, Tony Robert-Fleury, 1870
Philopoemen
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Philopoemen was a skilled Greek general and statesman, who was Achaean strategos on eight occasions.
Philopoemen, hurt by David d'Angers, 1837, Louvre
In Messenian captivity, Philopoemen is offered a drink of poison (as depicted in Children's Plutarch, 1900)