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Harmost () was a term for a military governor. The Spartan general instituted several harmosts during the period of after the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC. They were sent into their subject or conquered towns, partly to keep them in submission, and partly to abolish the of government, and establish instead.

Although in many cases they were ostensibly sent for the purpose of abolishing the tyrannical government of a town and restoring freedom, they were accused of acting like kings or tyrants themselves, such that the grammarian Dionysius thought that harmost was merely another word for "king".

In the peace of Antalcidas the Lacedaemonians pledged to reestablish free governments in their subject towns, but they nevertheless continued to install harmosts in them.Polybius 4.27 Even , generally pro-Spartan, censured the Spartans for the manner in which they allowed their harmosts to govern.Xenophon De Rep. Lac. C. 14

It is uncertain how long the office of an harmost lasted; but considering that a governor of the same kind, who was appointed by the Lacedaemonians in Cythera, with the title of Cytherodikes, held his office only for one year,Thucydides 4.53 it is not improbable that the office of harmost was of the same duration.

The also used the term during the .

There is an earlier use of the word in a scholium to 's odes, but the meaning isn't explained. It has been proposed that these were officials sent as overseers into the . A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Perioeci


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