Tagus (title)
Tagus (
Thessalian title for a leader or general, especially the military leader of the Thessalian League. When occasion required, a chief magistrate was elected under the name of Tagus, whose commands were obeyed by all the four districts of Thessaly (Phthiotis, Thessaliotis, Histiaeotis, Pelasgiotis). He is sometimes called king ("basileus", Herodotus, V.63), and sometimes "archon" (Dionysius
. V.74).
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hoplites. When Thessaly was not united under a Tagus, the subject towns possessed more independence. Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander the Great
exercised control over Thessaly as elected Tagoi. In later times some states called their ordinary magistrates "Tagoi".
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. London: John Murray.
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