Word: archon
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...Archaic Period Kissinger to the John Mitchell of Lycurgus, the famous lawgiver who recast the constitution of Sparta in a fierce authoritarian mold. Now Agathon is a drunken old bum. In between, he has fought a battle disguised as a woman, seduced and married the daughter of an archon, helped the Ionian philosophers invent humanism, rationalism and Western civilization, betrayed his best friend to the Athenian FBI, and made love to the wives of all his friends. By teaching his greatest love, a Helot woman, to read and write and think politically, he has set events in motion that...
...have caused more of a flurry at Brown's if he had literally done so. No wonder. An estimated 2,000,000 Americans will visit Europe this year, and an impressive number of them will follow a trail carefully blazed in advance by Temple Hornaday Fielding, at 55 the archon of U.S. guidebook writers...
...clustering around the tub to mime the principals' conversation, now reaching out to incite the patients to riot. Each brawl is quelled by the nurses, and our attention returns to the tendentious rhetoric of Sade and Marat, or to the visits of a sleepy, melancholy Charlotte to the archon's tubside...
...military history. About 600 B.C., two Greek mercenaries serving in the Egyptian army arrived at the temple and scratched on Ramses' leg an account of their travels upriver as "companions of Psammetichus." Like any other G.I.s, they signed their names as well: for the record, they were Archon and Pelekos...
...Eucrates, an archon of Athens, was famed for neglect and excuses...