Basileus

Agamemnon has been chosen as the generalissimo and that is what gives him temporarily the title of one ox.

I would imagine, I'm very confident that after the War of Troy, if Agamemnon had been allowed by his wife to live for more than a few minutes after he set foot at home, he would no longer be called Wanox, but would be called Basileus, like the other rulers of their local towns.

You remember I suggested that in the Linear B tablets when there is a reference to a Basileus, he's clearly well below the and some scholars suggest in a persuasive way, I think, that these basileus may have been village chieftains, but that's as high as they got.

But it's very interesting that when you get to historical Greece, as we shall see, there are no onectes, but there are, at least according to tradition, but no basileus has anything like the clout that the Mycenaean kings did, and of course, we don't hear of any of them who have even the temporary special power that Agamemnon has.

No human being is referred to as one ox in the period of historical Greece.

They just take orders, but the gentlemen don't just take orders.

They can argue and sometimes they can win the argument.

So, what you see in this very brief and inadequate account that I've given you is that we really, in spite of the fact that we have Basileus and even in this case Anax, we really don't have a proper monarchical tradition.

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Down a dirty old street The angel Alice is calling And with a trembling hand I open up a can I can hear a baby bawling Before I open up my eyes I can feel the warmth inside me But then I realize My girl with green eyes Is no longer there beside me Victoria, left me in opium euphoria When I fight my Centuria, fuck her with green eyes Victoria, left me in opium euphoria When I fight my Centuria, fuck her with green eyes You see that I'm lazy I don't care about fame Nor money like a child And I'm just like a child That's forgotten how to smile All the people are so busy I have nothing to bother about You see that I'm different See that I'm strange Someday I'll know I'll put my pipe away and hit the road And however far away I have to go To find my girl with green eyes Someday I know I'll put my pipe away and hit the road However far away I have to go To find my girl with green eyes My girl with green eyes Victoria My girl with green eyes Victoria We passed the time of day When questions got his views On a crux of life's philosophy He had the means to clear A simple word to say I am gone I am gone But the rope always went slack And now I've got another pile of gold And to Chelsea I walked in In the wildest of philosophy There is nothing ever gained By a weapon called a tear When the world is too dark And I need the light inside of me I walk into a bar We chug spell rings and old drug strings A young girl hocks her wedding rings Down the ring street Down the alley, the ass wagging through Picked up a step that was turning blue The local kids were sniffing glue There ain't much else for kids to do Down the ring street Faragree, Basileus, Kopi, Russia, forever.

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Translate.

Basileuse.

Luke 1, 33.

Accusate.

Cleopatra I, she's actually referred to as Cleopatra Syra, right? Cleopatra the Syrian coming from the east.

She's given the title Basilissa, which is the sort of feminine form of the Greek Basileus, which just means king.

She's also given the Egyptian title that sort of parallels this, Lady of the Two Lands, which suggests that she is presented maybe not as an equal co-ruler, but certainly as an established political actor in her own right.

She's clearly part of this ruling couple with her husband.

She's the dominant figure here.

And there is this great gold coin, a gold octrodon, a big, great, big, valuable gold coin that has her portrait on one side and his on the other side.

He's referred to as Basileus, as king.

She as Basilissa, as sort of queen.

Whether it's Benjamin Netanyahu who they can't wait to pleasure the second he steps foot on our territory.

Whether it's Ammar Ben-Gavir, Basileus, it doesn't matter.

Naftali Bennett, he's not Netanyahu.

Netanyahu is the only problem in Israel.

Each one had their warlords, their leaders.

Those leaders were the ones called the Bacillus.

Before Philip and Alexander brought them together and made them one country.

But each of the Bacillus, we are reigning in their different domains.

The desire of God for us is that anywhere we are found, you will reign in your domain by one Christ Jesus.

The Bible said in Revelation chapter 5, He has made us kings and priests, 9 and 10, and we shall reign on this earth.

When the palaces burned in the late Bronze Age collapse, the office of the Wanax apparently died with it, but the Guasaleus continued.

So the Greek word for king that comes down to us, Basileus, loses that sacred edge of the Wanax.

As for the Wanax, it survives in Homer as the word Anax, but it's better translated now as lord.

When Telemachus is stripped of his father's power by the suitors, he says he'll at least be the Anax of his own house.