A polemarch (/ˈpɒləˌmɑːrk/, from Ancient Greek: πολέμαρχος, polemarchos) was a senior military title in various ancient Greek city states (poleis). The...
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Athenian polemarch at the Battle of Marathon, which took place during 490 BC. According to Herodotus he was from the Attica deme of Aphidna. As polemarch, Callimachus...
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was the magazine's first editor and later became the fourteenth grand polemarch. In the 1950s, as black Greek-letter organizations began the tradition...
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three office holders being known as archon eponymos (ἄρχων ἐπώνυμος), the polemarch (πολέμαρχος), and the archon basileus (ἄρχων βασιλεύς). According to Aristotle's...
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Polemarch (1918 – after 1937) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He showed considerable promise as a two-year-old in 1920 when he won the...
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(ruler of Athens, the highest political office in the city-state), the polemarch (πολέμαρχος, "war ruler", the commander-in-chief of the Athenian military)...
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command of solar system defense. The Strategos, along with the positions of Polemarch (responsible for the International Fleet of space warships), and the Hegemon...
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of Pelopidas mentions Gorgidas for the first time when the pro-Spartan polemarch Leontidas took over with a Spartan army and forced the pro-Athens aristocrats...
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allowed to go wherever they wished. The next morning, Agesilaus ordered the polemarch Gylis to put the army in battle formation and gave out awards for valour...
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were unhappy with their rulers. At the time, around 657 BC, Cypselus was polemarch, the archon in charge of the military, and he used his influence with...
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be confined to the house and be of little importance. Eponymous archon Polemarch Rex Sacrorum Pseudo-Aristotle. "Atheneion Politeia". Perseus. Perseus...
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Gylis (also transcribed Gyllis or Gylus) was a Spartan polemarch under Agesilaus II at the Battle of Coronea in 394 BC in the Corinthian War. On the morning...
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treated with equal friendliness by Antigonus's son Demetrius, who made him polemarch of Thespiae, and by Antigonus Gonatas, at whose court he died at the purported...
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trained them to fight in the Macedonian pike phalanx. The unit was led by a Polemarch, the third (or arguably second) highest rank in Spartan hierarchy after...
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the Polemarch in the Epilyceum. The latter building was formerly called the Polemarcheum, but after Epilycus, during his term of office as Polemarch, had...
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of the archons have special functions: the basileus, or sovereign; the polemarch (originally a military commander); and the archon eponymous (chief magistrate)...
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Callimachus (Ancient Greek: Καλλίμαχος) may refer to: Callimachus (polemarch), one of the commanders of the Athenian army at the Battle of Marathon in...
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was a geographer, ethnologist, linguist, familiar with the Abyssinian polemarch and an active witness to their battles and the life of their courts. The...
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to sing the paean". The arrangements were under the supervision of the polemarch. Each member was required to contribute a monthly share to the common...
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Charmus of Kolyttus (fl. mid-6th century BCE) was an Athenian polemarch (557/6) during the Pisistratid dynasty, and also eromenos of Pisistratus. He is...
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safety; It is not known exactly how this law was enacted. The archon polemarch (ἄρχων πολέμαρχος / polemarkhos Arkhon), whose original function was to...
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absorbed into the generalship: each of the ten generals would rotate as polemarch for one day, and during this day his vote would serve as tie-breaker if...
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air force. Only kings George II, Paul and Constantine II held the rank. Polemarch – Senior military title in various ancient Greek city states Hornblower...
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was one of these. In addition, in overall charge, was the War-Archon (polemarch), Callimachus, who had been elected by the whole citizen body. Herodotus...
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Hereditary National Pir or Pirani Persian Administrative Identified Personal Polemarch Greek Executive Appointed/ chosen by lot/ elected National Pope Latin...
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for 490 BC. In addition to the ten generals, there was one 'war-ruler' (polemarch), Callimachus, who had to decide—with the ten generals evenly split, five...
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toward the Corinthian country, while Diocles' faces away. In 657 BC, polemarch Cypselus obtained an oracle from Delphi which he interpreted to mean that...
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attest to this. Annual offerings (enagismata) were presented there by the polemarch, the Athenian minister of war. There it stood alone as special laws prohibited...
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war Greek πολεμεῖν (polemeîn), πόλεμος (pólemos), πολεμικός (polemikós) polemarch, polemic, polemology poli- city Greek πόλις, πόλιος (pólis, pólios), πολίτης...
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lot. Of these, the archon eponymos (for whom the year was named), the polemarch (polemos archon = war lord) and the basileus divided the powers of Athens'...
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