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Achaea

noun
1.
A region of ancient Greece on the north coast of the Peloponnese.





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... hostile animals, find their natural explanation" in totemism.(1) Mr. Evelyn Abbott points out, however, that the names Aegeus, Aegae, Aegina, and others, may be connected with the goat only by an old volks-etymologie, as on coins of Aegina in Achaea. The real meaning of the words may be different. Compare (Greek text omitted), the sea-shore. Mr. J. G. Frazer does not, at present, regard totemism as proved ...
— Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 • Andrew Lang


Words linked to "Achaea" :   region, Greece, part, Ellas, Hellenic Republic


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