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Definition of Polemarchs

Polemarch
Polemarch Pol"e*march, n. [Gr. ?; ? war + ? leader, from ? to be first.] (Gr. Antiq.) In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer.

Meaning of Polemarchs from wikipedia

- fraternity leaders as Polemarchs. This position was featured in Orson Scott Card's novel Ender's Game. In the novel, the position of polemarch was charged with...
- 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...
- three office holders being known as archon eponymos (ἄρχων ἐπώνυμος), the polemarch (πολέμαρχος), and the archon basileus (ἄρχων βασιλεύς). According to Aristotle's...
- was the magazine's first editor and later became the fourteenth grand polemarch. In the 1950s, as black Gr****-letter organizations began the tradition...
- 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...
- classes together the Boeotarchs of the Thebans, the Kings of Sparta, the Polemarchs of the Athenians, (in reference to their original duties), and the Tagoi...
- (ruler of Athens, the highest political office in the city-state), the polemarch (πολέμαρχος, "war ruler", the commander-in-chief of the Athenian military)...
- Thermopylae. Plutarch calls him, throughout, "Leontidas". He was one of the polemarchs at Thebes, in 382 BC, when the Spartan commander Phoebidas stopped there...
- be confined to the house and be of little importance. Eponymous archon Polemarch Rex Sacrorum Pseudo-Aristotle. "Atheneion Politeia". ****us. ****us...
- Callimachus (Ancient Gr****: Καλλίμαχος) may refer to: Callimachus (polemarch), one of the commanders of the Athenian army at the Battle of Marathon in...