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Strategos

Strategos (Greek: στρατηγός): the Greek word for general. Statue of a Greek strategos, perhaps Miltiades Strategos was the title of the commander of…

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Suffete

Suffetes (Phoenician sptm, "judges"): highest official in a Phoenician city. A suffete from Lepcis Magna The Phoenician officials known as suffetes are…

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Syennesis

Syennesis: title of the native king of Cilicia, whose palace was at Tarsus. The Luwian word suuannassai means "belonging to the dog", a title that is well attested although its meaning remains unclear. Three leaders with this name are known.Syennesis…

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Tetrarchy

Tetrarchy: system of imperial succession, developed by the Roman emperor Diocletian. The tetrarchs (San Marco, Venice) One of the great problems of…

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Tribune

Tribune: Roman official whose task it was to protect the people against oppression.In the fifth century BCE, the republican magistracies were monopolized by aristocrats called patricians. This caused great tensions with two other groups: the poor, who had to appeal…

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Triumvir

Triumvir or tresvir: member of a college of three members. The expression is mostly used to describe the First Triumvirate (60 BCE; Pompey the Great, Crassus, and Julius Caesar) and Second Triumvirate (43 BCE; Marc Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian). …

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