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ACHAIA

(Gk. Achaía)

Home of the Achaeans, as Homer called the Greeks who attacked Troy, the dominant people in the northern Peloponnesian Peninsula of Greece during the Mycenaean period. When Rome began to threaten Greece, city states of the northern Peloponnese (Achaia proper), led by Corinth, formed the Achaean League to resist. When the Romans defeated the league and destroyed Corinth, Achaia became a Roman province attached to Macedonia but recognized as distinct.

In 27 b.c.e. Augustus designated all the Peloponnese and the mainland south of a line running roughly from the Eubian Gulf west to Actium as the new senatorial province of Achaia. Corinth became its capital. Northern Greece largely formed the province of Macedonia. The Romans also frequently referred in a general way to all of Greece as Achaia.

The letters of Paul and Acts follow the Roman provincial designations and refer to southern Greece as Achaia and northern Greece as Macedonia. Paul most often used Achaia to indicate specifically Corinth and its surrounding territory (cf. Acts 18:12, 27; Rom. 15:26; 1 Cor. 16:15; 2 Cor. 1:1; 9:2; 11:10; 1 Thess. 1:7-8).

Scott Nash

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ACHAIA

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)