Polémarque
A polémarque was a military title in the ancient Greece.
With Sparte, polémarque was responsible for a Brigade.
With Athens, polémarque was one of the Magistrat S and more precisely one of the archontes. Originally polémarque was a commander of army who had also functions religious and legal, but after 487 before JC, when the magistrates were drawn with the fate (see Lotocratie), the functions military were held by a Stratège.
Use in fiction
This function appears in the novel of Orson Scott Card the Strategy Ender, where the polémarque one directs the whole of the human space fleet.
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