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but would be called Basileus like the other rulers
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of their local towns.
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You remember I suggested that
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in the Linear B tablets when there was a reference to a Basileus,
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he's clearly well below the Wanax
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and some scholars suggest, in a persuasive way,
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I think, that these basileus may have been village chieftains
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but that's as high as they got.
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But it's very interesting that when you get to
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historical Greece, as we shall see, there are no wanaktes
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but there are, at least according to tradition, basileis.
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But no basileus has anything like the clout