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  • Epistrategos (Ancient Greek: ἐπιστράτηγος, lit. 'over-general'; Latin: epistrategus) was a senior military and administrative office in Ptolemaic Egypt...
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    demilitarized. Ptolemy V Epiphanes (r. 204–181 BC) established the office of epistrategos (ἐπιστράτηγος, lit. 'over-general') to oversee the individual strategoi...
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    known as an "epistrategy" after the chief officer, the epistrategos (ἐπιστράτηγος, epistratēgós, 'over-general'), each of whom was also a Roman procurator...
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    Egypt, the Thebaid formed a single administrative district under the Epistrategos of Thebes, who was also responsible for overseeing navigation in the...
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    revolts in the south, a new military governorship of Upper Egypt, the epistrategos, was created, with Comanus serving in the role from 187 BC. Greek soldiers...
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  • was the son of either a man called Apollonius or of Apollodorus the epistrategos of Thebais. Helenus joined the service of Ptolemy VIII while he was ruling...
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  • (mythology) Episkopoi Episkyros Epistates Episteme Epistles (Plato) Epistrategos Epistrophus Epitadeus Epitasis Epitelidas of Laconia Epithalamium Epithets...
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  • the Chancellor's Medal by the Senate of Durham University in 2017. The Epistrategos in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, Papyrologica Coloniensia, no. 6 (Westdeutscher...
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