أخيون (Achaeans) هو اسم الإغريق في العصر المسيني (1650 – 1100 ق.م.[1][2][3] ).لهذا كان يطلق عليهم الميسيون وكان لغتهم الأخية التي انحدرت منها اللهجة القبرصية . وكلمة أخيين كانت تطلق على سكان جنوبي شرق اليونان.
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^Nagy 2014، Texts and Commentaries – Introduction #2: "Panhellenism is the least common denominator of ancient Greek civilization...The impulse of Panhellenism is already at work in Homeric and Hesiodic poetry. In the Iliad, the names "Achaeans" and "Danaans" and "Argives" are used synonymously in the sense of Panhellenes = "all Hellenes" = "all Greeks.""
^Cartledge 2011، Chapter 4: Argos, p. 23: "The Late Bronze Age in Greece is also called conventionally 'Mycenaean', as we saw in the last chapter. But it might in principle have been called 'Argive', 'Achaean', or 'Danaan', since the three names that Homer does apply to Greeks collectively were 'Argives', 'Achaeans', and 'Danaans'."
