Homer never calls the allied army that Agamemnon convened “Greeks” and only rarely even “Hellenes.” He most commonly refers to them as “the Achaeans,” named for Achaea, a region in the north central Peloponnese that was part of Agamemnon’s combined lands of Corinth, Mycenae, and Argos,92 but which was used to denote the whole peninsula, including city-states of the southern Peloponnese like Sparta and Troezen.
