strategos
Sign in to savethumb|Bust of Pericles, statesman and general during the Golden Age of Athens; [[Hadrianic Roman copy of a Greek sculpture of BC]] Strategos (), also known by its Latinised form strategus, is a Greek term meaning 'military general'. In the Hellenistic world and in the Byzantine Empire, the term also described a military governor. In the modern Hellenic Army, it is the highest officer rank.
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- Etymology
- Classical Greece
- Athens
- Other Greek states
- Hellenistic and Roman use
- Byzantine use
- Kingdom of Sicily
- Modern use
- Notes
- References
- General sources
- External links
thumb|Bust of Pericles, statesman and general during the Golden Age of Athens; [[Hadrianic Roman copy of a Greek sculpture of BC]] Strategos (), also known by its Latinised form strategus, is a Greek term meaning 'military general'. In the Hellenistic world and in the Byzantine Empire, the term also described a military governor. In the modern Hellenic Army, it is the highest officer rank.
== Etymology == Strategos is a compound of two Greek words: stratos and agos. Stratos (στρατός) means 'army', literally 'that which is spread out', coming from the proto-Indo-European root *stere-, 'to spread'. Agos (ἀγός) means 'leader', from agein (ἄγειν), 'to lead', from the pelasgic root *ag-, 'to drive, draw out or forth, move'.