Meaning of archontes | Babel Free

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Pluriel de archonte.

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“1930, Georges Bataille, Base⟳ Materialism and Gnosticism, quoted in:”

“He may however have⟳ been one of the local archontes, who are mentioned in another document (CPJ, II 432, see⟳ below) as representing the community in regard to public water consumption. […] It was translated by the editor, Fuks, as “from the archontes of the synagogue of the Theban Jews” which implies that the Thebans had their own⟳ leadership, and in that case it is surprising that no archontes are mentioned in connection with the local synagogue (line 60).”

“The archontes’ resistance to the Venetians arose far more from a sense⟳ of threatened hegemony than from a sense⟳ of national violation, as evidenced in part by the Greek nobles’ inability ever to unite⟳ in coalition against the occupiers. Their anger instead arose out of their being dispossessed of their lands and status. In the process⟳ of consolidating their hold⟳ of the island, the Venetian authorities had confiscated all the land⟳ that had belonged to the Byzantine imperial fisc and to the Greek archontes.”

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