Strategos

Strategos were the Athenian war generals who were elected once a year.

They were different to other Athenian institutions in the fact that they were unpaid and elected. Following the reforms of Pericles, all Athenian positions except the strategos were selected by lot and were paid so that any Athenian citizen could take part in office. Because of this the strategos remained an Aristocratix position as both wealth and popularity were required to fill the role.

Some of the more notable Athenian strategos were:

Pericles? the great proponent of Democracy in Athens

Thucydides the author of "The Peloponnesian War"

Nicias?

Cleon?