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The name simply implies “a military commander.”
By circa 500 BCE the Athenians had ten Strategi elected from each of the “tribes” which represented their interests in military affairs and commanded a troop of hoplites; the Strategi were governed by a polemarch until it became obvious that such a system was inefficient; the command of the hoplites fell to taxiarchs and the overall supervision of the various military campaigns were assigned to specific Strategi.
In the late fifth century BCE there were two classifications of Strategi: one was elected by all the tribes as commander-in-chief and the other was chosen for command of specific military tasks.
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