Archon

Archon

Definition: Legal Body that holds preliminary hearings and schedule cases, chosen by lot, serves a one year term.

synonym(s): Magistrate (alternative),

hypernym(s): Legal Body (preferred),

hyponym(s): Basileus (preferred), Eponymous Archon (preferred), King (alternative), Law-Givers (alternative), Polemarch (preferred), Thesmothetai (preferred),

Status: preferred

See also: Magistrate (alternative),

Equivalent(s):

- grc: ἄρχων (preferred)

Concept: <Legal_Body that holds preliminary hearings and schedule cases chosen by lot serves a one year term>

essential characteristic(s): /is an office of Athenian law/, /that holds preliminary hearings and schedule cases/, /chosen by lot/, /serves a one year term/

a kind of: <Legal_Body>