Achates (disambiguation)
Achates may refer to:
- Achates, a close friend of Aeneas, his name became a by-word for an intimate companion
- Achates (river), the Sicilian river known in antiquity as the Achates
- 5144 Achates, an asteroid
- Agate, the gemstone called achates by Theophrastus and Pliny the Elder
- Leonardus Achates, the fifteenth century composer from Basel
- HMS Achates, the series of British Royal Navy ships named for after this character
- Achates Power, an American developer of engines
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