anax

No wonder Homer reserves for Agamemnon the title anax, harkening back to the Bronze Age term for king: wanax.

The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

No wonder Homer reserves for Agamemnon the title anax, harkening back to the Bronze Age term for king: wanax.

The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

A big blue anax dragonfly hangs vertically from a twig.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

If, however, we rely on analogies with other peoples, then we can assume that in each community the position of ruler anax came to be hereditary in a family made prominent by wealth in cattle and marked out as favoured by the gods by success in war and equity in judgment.

Archive 2009-09-01 Daniel Little 2009

If, however, we rely on analogies with other peoples, then we can assume that in each community the position of ruler anax came to be hereditary in a family made prominent by wealth in cattle and marked out as favoured by the gods by success in war and equity in judgment.

Agrarian history -- the Weber edition Daniel Little 2009

A big blue anax dragonfly hangs vertically from a twig.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

No matter what others may say, I will remain true, so help me God. anax

LDS Temple Ceremony goes Prime Time. | Mind on Fire 2009

The king of men (it is Colonel Crawley, who, indeed, has no notion about the sack of Ilium or the conquest of Cassandra), the anax andron is asleep in his chamber at Argos.

Vanity Fair 2006

In the eyes of all the gentry of the French court, who gaily joined in the crusade against us, and so took their revenge for Canada, the great American chief always appeared as anax andron, and they allowed that his better could not be seen in Versailles itself.

The Virginians 2006

The name appears to me to be very nearly the same as the name of Astyanax - both are Hellenic; and a king (anax) and a holder (ektor) have nearly the same meaning, and are both descriptive of a king; for a man is clearly the holder of that of which he is king; he rules, and owns, and holds it.

The CRATYLUS Plato 1975