Misplaced Pages

Hipparchus (cavalry officer)

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Military title in ancient Greece

Hipparchus, anglicized hipparch (Greek: ἵππαρχος, romanized: hipparchos), was the title of an ancient Greek cavalry officer, commanding a hipparchia (unit of about 500 horsemen); two such units were commanded by an epihipparchos.

References

  1. Peck, Harry Thurston (1896). Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities. Harper. p. 821.
Stub icon

This article on a military rank or appointment is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: