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archon basileus
''Archon basileus'' () was a Greek title, meaning "king magistrate": the term is derived from the words ''archon'' "magistrate" and ''basileus'' "king" or "sovereign".
Most modern scholars claim that in Classical Athens, the ''archon basileus'' was the last remnant of monarchy. Although much of his powers, they say, had been filtered away to other institutions such as the Areopagus and later the Boule and Ecclesia, he still nominally held a high position in Athenian society, alongside the ''archon eponymos'' and the ''polemarchos''. The ''archon basileus'' was charged with overseeing the organisation of religious rites.
There is a tradition that originally the ''archon basileus'' was elected from the Athenian aristocracy every ten years. After 683 BC, the office was only held for a year, and after Solon's reforms, he was elected from the wealthiest Athenians, the ''Pentakosiomedimnoi'' (Πεντακοσιομέδιμνοι), "500-bushel men", rather than the ''Eupatridae'', (the aristocratic families). After 487 BC, the archonships were assigned by lot.
It is believed the ''archon basileus''s wife, the ''basilinna'', had to marry and have intercourse with the god Dionysos during a festival at the Boukoleion in Athens, to ensure the city's safety. It is uncertain how this was enacted. However, this was an important role for a woman who, according to Plutarch and Solon, would otherwise be confined to the house and be of little importance. During antiquity, women in Greece served as priestesses and presented oracles such as those issued at Delphi.
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