Dioiketes
Dioikētēs (
Latinized
as dioecetes, is a term applied to a variety of administrative officials.
Origin and history during Antiquity
The term derives from διοίκησις (dioikēsis), literally "housekeeping", which already in
Classical Antiquity came to mean "administration", especially connected with finances, both public and sacred (connected to the temples).[1][2] Officials in charge of administration were thus designated ὁ ἐπὶ τῇ διοικήσει (ho epi tē dioikēsei).[2]
The title of dioikētēs is mostly attested in
Byzantine Empire
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In
mētata (διοικηταὶ τῶν μητάτων) are also attested as subaltern officials of the logothetēs tōn agelōn, the minister responsible for the state-run horse and mule farms (mētata).[5]
In the fiscal administration, the dioikētēs was replaced after 1109 by the Palaiologan period as the megas dioikētēs. In Modern Greek usage, the term means simply "administrator, commander".
See also
References
- .
- ^ a b Brandis 1905, col. 786–790
- ^ a b c d Brandis 1905, col. 790–791
- ^ Hagedorn, Dieter (1985). "Zum Amt des "dioiketes" im römischen Ägypten". Yale Classical Studies. 28: 167–210 – via JSTOR.
- ^ a b c d e ODB, "Dioiketes" (A. Kazhdan), pp. 627–628.
- ^ ODB, "Dioiketes" (A. Kazhdan), pp. 627–628; "Synetheia" (N. Oikonomides, M. Bartusis), p. 1993.
Sources
- Brandis, Karl Georg (1905). "Διοικητής". Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft. Band V, Halbbände 9-10, Demogenes-Ephoroi.
- Capponi, Livia (2005). Augustan Egypt: The Creation of a Roman Province. Routledge. ISBN 9781135873691.
- ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
- Hagedorn, Dieter, Zum Amt des "dioiketes" im römischen Ägypten, Yale Classicaal Studies 28 (1985) pp. 167-210.