Sing how the unsightly black fuzz, like the Persian legions of Darius, sweeps over the Achaean mainland of girls barely into their teens!

With the Achaeans at the doorstep of Troy, Helen prostrated herself before her new father-in-law and mourned her fate.

The non-Dorian dialects, Ionic, Attic and the various forms of Aeolic, are regarded as relatively closely akin, and go by the common name “Achaean.”