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Although in many cases they were ostensibly sent for the purpose of abolishing the tyrannical government of a town and restoring freedom, they were accused of acting like kings or tyrants themselves, such that the grammarian
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It is uncertain how long the office of an harmost lasted; but considering that a governor of the same kind, who was appointed by the Lacedaemonians in
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the Lacedaemonians pledged to reestablish free governments in their subject towns, but they nevertheless continued to install harmosts in them. Even
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in 404 BC. They were sent into their subject or conquered towns, partly to keep them in submission, and partly to abolish the
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thought that harmost was merely another word for "king".
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There is an earlier use of the word in a scholium to
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Harmosts
Ancient Greek
ἁρμοστής
Spartan
military governor
Lysander
Spartan hegemony
Peloponnesian War
democratic form
oligarchies
Dionysius
peace of Antalcidas
Xenophon
Cythera
Thebans
Theban hegemony
Pindar
Perioeci
Episcopi
Epistates
Phrourarch
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
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