AGONOTHETES  , in See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• GREECE

Greece, the See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president or See also:

• SUPERINTENDENT

superintendent of the sacred See also:

• GAMES, CLASSICAL

games . At first the See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person who instituted the games and defrayed the expenses was the Agonothetes; but in the See also:

• GREAT

great public games, such as the Olympic and Pythian, these presidents were the representatives of different states, or were chosen from the See also:

• PEOPLE

people in whose See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country the games were celebrated; thus at the Panathenaic festival at See also:

• ATHENS
• ATHENS ['AN vat, Athenae, modem colloquial Greek `Ath va]

Athens ten athlothetae were elected for four years to superintend the various contests . They were variously called aiau,.w See also:

• RAT (a word common to Teut. and Rom. languages; probably first adopted in Teut.; the ultimate origin is not known; Skeat suggests the root rad-, to scratch; cf. Ger. Ratte, Dan. rotte, Fr. rat, &c.)

rat, i3paj3evrai, aywvapxac, aywvoSiicac, &OXoO rat (at Athens), , af3Sovxoc or baObovoµoc (from the See also:

• ROD (O.E. rodd, probably related to Norw. rudda, stick, rodda, stake)
• ROD, EDOUARD (1857-1910)

rod or See also:

• SCEPTRE

sceptre emblematic of their authority), but their functions were generally the same .