Citations:Achillean

English citations of Achillean

noun

a painter in the school of(?) or figure painted by(?) the Achilles Painter

• 1986, Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster, John H. Betts, J. T. Hooker, John Richard Green, Studies in Honour of T.B.L. Webster, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Incorporated (→ISBN)

  The Dwarf Painter was a follower of the Achilles Painter, but there are contacts between the Achilleans and the Polygnotans, from whom the Kleophon Painter issued, and certainly there are likenesses in the works of the Kleophon and ...

• 1997, Richard T. Neer, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The J. Paul Getty Museum: Fascicule 7, Getty Publications (→ISBN), page 51:

  Especially close are the drooping contour of the nose and the use, unusual for Achilleans, of a double line for the upper eyelid.

inhabitant of a planet Achilles

• 2005, Jane Gregory, Fred Hoyle's Universe, Oxford University Press on Demand (→ISBN), page 152:

  While on Achilles, some of the astronauts are possessed by the spirits of the Achilleans, and the spirit that survives the trip back to Earth passes from astronaut Mike Fawsett into the body of his lover Cathy, the wife of the discoverer of Achilles, ...

inhabitant of a place Achill

• 1903, Cassell's Magazine, page 266:

  The Achilleans mistook his purpose, and marched up with their own birds under their arms, eager to accept what they thought was the challenge of a sportsmanlike stranger. - Thus goes the winter in mild, salubrious Achill; and when the spring ...

a sponge of the (obsolete, variously-defined) clade Achilleum

• 1842, George Johnston, A History of British Sponges and Lithophytes, page 25:

  The loose sponges are the largest, and the thick close ones the softest, for the Achilleans are firmer than these last. But, in general, those which grow in deep and still water are the softest; for the wind and waves harden sponges ...