The Officials

This chapter focuses on the gymnasial officials (in particular the gymnasiarchs, kosmetai , ephebarchs, lampadarchs, and agonothetai ), drawing also parallels from the situation in other Hellenistic Kingdoms. The tenure, functions, involvement, and character of the various offices of the gymnasium and the position that their holders had in local society are investigated, thus providing a picture of the complex organization of the communities of the gymnasium. It is shown how gymnasiarchs were the people chiefly in charge of the gymnasium and how prestigious their office was. A subsection on village gymnasiarchs in the Augustan period provides evidence of the last traces of survival of a Ptolemaic habit into the early years of Roman domination.

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