Wanax

Wanax: Mycenean or Minoan (title) for king

𐀷-𐀙-𐀏 wa-na-ka ᴷWanax (King) ἄναξ ἄνακτα
𐀷-𐀙-𐀭 wa-na-sa ᴷVanessa (Königin, Queen)

𐀷-𐀙-𐀏 wa-na-ka wanax 𓉐𓉻 ἄναξ ἄνακτα lord, applying to both chieftains and gods •the king ⇔ ἄναξ Cypriot WA-NA-XE king lord Iliad II.104: Ἑρμείας δὲ ἄναξ 'Hermes the lord' Iliad II.284 II.360: ἄναξ 'king' Iliad II.403 II.613 III.81 III.455 IV.148 IV.255 IV.336 V.38 V.268 V.311 VI.33: ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν 'lord of men (epithet of Agamemnon Anchises Aeneas)' Iliad V.105: ἄναξ Διὸς υἱὸς 'lord [Apollo] the son of Zeus' Iliad VII.23 VII.38: ἄναξ Διὸς υἱὸς Ἀπόλλων 'king Apollo son of Zeus' •dative of wa-na-ka •variant spelling of wa-na-ka-te •genitive of wa-na-ka Iliad II.370 IV.290: πόλις Πριάμοιο ἄνακτος 'city of king Priam' Iliad II.620: υἱὸς Ἀγασθένεος Αὐγηιάδαο ἄνακτος 'son of king Agasthenes Augeias' son' Iliad II.725: Φιλοκτήταο ἄνακτος 'king Philoctetes' Iliad IV.420: ἐπὶ στήθεσσιν ἄνακτος 'on the breast of the king' Iliad VI.450: Πριάμοιο ἄνακτος 'king Priam's' Iliad VII.8: υἱὸν Ἀρηιθόοιο ἄνακτος 'son of king Areïthous' ⇔ po-ku-te-ro Hooker 1979: descriptive adjective contextually ambiguous •'of the king royal' ⇔ ἄναξ + -τερος ⇔ βασιλεύτερος Adrados 1969: attached to the service of the god palace house of the king •nominative plural neuter or feminine of wa-na-ka-te-ro See also Homeric Greek sections under each Variant. Iliad II.405: καὶ Ἰδομενῆα ἄνακτα 'and king Idomeneus' (accusative) Iliad V.545: πολέεςς᾽ ἄνδρεσσιν ἄνακτα 'king over many men' (accusative) Adrados Francisco Rodríguez 1969 Minos 10 Te-re-ta wa-na-ka-te-ro y los anaktotelestai Hooker James T. 1979 Kadmos Band 18 Heft 2 The wanax in Linear B texts p. 100-111 pharao 𓉐𓉻 por.maka port.mega