An epistates (Greek: ἐπιστάτης, plural ἐπιστάται, epistatai) in ancient Greece was any sort of superintendent or overseer. In the Hellenistic kingdoms...

Hybomitra epistates is a species of horse flies in the family Tabanidae. Canada, United States. Osten Sacken, C.R. (1878). "Prodrome of a monograph of...

theatre reached its fullest extent in the fourth century BC under the epistates of Lycurgus when it would have had a capacity of up to 25,000, and was...

a large city (polis), as well as the politico-religious office of the epistates. No evidence exists about the personal backgrounds of these officials...

center, the Mouseion was directed by a priest of the Muses known as an epistates, who was appointed by the king in the same manner as the priests who managed...

citizens were governed by the šatammu and the kiništu and Greeks by the epistates. Although no king lists younger than the Seleucid Empire survive, documents...

man in front of an epistates (the one who stands behind). The Greek phalanx was made up of alternate ranks of protostates and epistates. Thus, in a file...

the 50 prytaneis was selected by lot to serve as the foreman (ἐπιστάτης epistates, "caretaker"). He administered the state seal and the keys to the state...

Agathocles II Lanassa Pyrrhus I king of Epirus Antigone Archagathus of Libya epistates of Cyrenaica ∞ Oenanthe Theoxena Younger Ptolemy III king of Egypt Archagathus...

of a large city (polis), but also the politico-religious office of the epistates. Although these were highly influential members of local and regional...