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Achaiam
also: Achaia
The Greek mainland south of Macedonia — the region of Athens, Corinth, Sparta, and the old Peloponnesian and Boeotian cities. From 146 BC under direct Roman control through the governor of Macedonia, formally a separate province only under Augustus; Verres traversed it on his eastward journey before the praetorship (In Verrem 2.1).
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 3.8 §1 Achaia
The Roman name for southern Greece (the Peloponnese and Attica). Cicero shunned it because it harboured exiled Catilinarian enemies, which is why he avoided Epirus and Athens.
- Ad Atticum 11.14 §1 all those in Achaia who were pleading for pardon
Achaia, the Roman province covering southern Greece, was full of former Pompeians who had stayed behind after Pharsalus to sue Caesar's officers for pardon. Cicero contrasts their growing reconciliation with his own isolation.
- Ad Familiares 4.4 §2 this commission in Achaia
Caesar appointed Servius Sulpicius Rufus governor of Achaia (the Roman province covering mainland Greece, including Athens and Corinth), where he served from about 46 BC until his death in 43. Cicero praises Servius for not refusing this charge under the new regime.
- Ad Familiares 13.78 §1 very nearly the foremost man of Achaea
Achaea is the Greek mainland south of Macedonia (Athens, Corinth, the Peloponnese); Sicyon, Democritus's city, lay within it. To call a man princeps (foremost) of the region marks him as a leading provincial notable whose goodwill a governor would value.