Strategos

Strategoi were the Athenian generals who were elected once a year.

They were different to other Athenian office-bearers 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. The role strategos remained an aristocratic position as both wealth and popularity were required to fill the role.

Some of the more notable Athenian strategoi were:

Pericles? the great proponent of Democracy in Athens

Cimon

Thucydides the author of "The Peloponnesian War"

Nicias?

Cleon?

The term Strategos was also used in the East Roman Empire to describe a Military Governer

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