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Definition of Agonothete

Agonothete
Agonothete Ag"o*no*thete`, n. [Gr. ?; ? + ? to set. appoint.] [Antiq.] An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.

Meaning of Agonothete from wikipedia

- In ancient Greece, an agonothetes (plural agonothetai; Ancient Gr****: ἀγωνοθέτης) was the president or superintendent of one of the sacred Pan****enic...
- were often showered with gifts and honours on returning to their polis. Agonothetes Theorodokoi Theoroi Hermogenes of Xanthos See O. Broneer, "The Isthmian...
- and Calchedon: Inschriften von Ilion 5–6. Knoepfler, D. (2010). "Les agonothètes de la Confédération d'Athéna Ilias: une interpretation nouvelle des données...
- Appointed (Debatable) Tribal Aesymnetes Gr**** Executive Elected National Agonothetes Gr**** Administrative Elected Institutional (sacred games) Agoranomos...
- Different states might give particular names to the agonothetes of particular games; for example, the agonothetes of the Pythian games at Athens were called athlothetes...
- proved wealthy or willing enough to sponsor them as a Gymnasiarch or Agonothetes. Generally Hadrian preferred that Gr**** notables, including priests of...
- It was modified in 271–270 BCE by Thrasykles the son of Thrasyllos, agonothetes in the Great Dionysia Games. Pausanias refers to the monument indirectly...
- a major centre for the study of astronomy. The building known as the Agonothetes monument was built in the 2nd century BC. It had a ten-tier cavea and...
- BC. His son Gaius Julius Laco was duumvir quinquennalis and Isthmian agonothete, as was Laco's son Gaius Julius Spartiaticus; both were members of the...
- Monument of Agonothetes in Apollonia...