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Basileus (Greek: βασιλεύς) is a Greek term and title that has signified various types of monarchs in history. In the English-speaking world it is perhaps most widely understood to mean "monarch", referring to either a "king" or an "emperor" and also by bishops of the Eastern orthodox church and
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See moreThe etymology of basileus is uncertain. The Mycenaean form was *gʷasileus (Linear B: ????????????????, qa-si-re-u), denoting some sort of court official or local chieftain, but not an actual king. Its hypothetical earlier
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See moreUnder Roman rule, the term basileus came to be used, in the Hellenistic tradition, to designate the Roman Emperor in the ordinary and literary speech of the Greek-speaking Eastern Mediterranean. Although the early Roman Emperors were careful to retain the façade of the
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See moreDuring the post-Byzantine period, the term basileus, by the renewed influence of Classical writers on the language, reverted to its earlier meaning of
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See moreOriginal senses encountered on clay tablets
The first written instance of this word is found on the baked...
See moreBasileus and megas basileus were exclusively used by Alexander the Great and his Hellenistic successors in Ptolemaic Egypt,
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See moreWhile the terms used for the Roman emperor are Kaisar Augustos (Decree from Caesar Augustus, Dogma para Kaisaros Augoustou,
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