Re: Etymology for Byzantine Katepan(os)

Sorry for my negligence; it is KATEPAN(OS) and not Ketepano.
It's seams that Katepan(os) was the governor of a naval theme and the title
developed only after the X century.

Thank You,
S o r i n

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From: "S & L" <mbusines@...>
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Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003
Subject: [tied] Etymology for Byzantine Ketepano


> Can somebody help me with the standard etymology for Ketepano ?
>
> Hélène Ahrweiler [in "Recherches sur l'administration de l'empire byzantin
> aux IXe-XIe siècles", published in "Bulletin de Corespondence Hellenique",
> no. 84/1960, pg. 1-109] analyze this duke/ketepano problem [at pg. 64-67].
> It seams that the same article was re-published in "Études sur les
> structures administratives et sociales de Byzance", London [Variorum]
1971,
> VIII.
> Has anybody access to one of these works and is willing to help me with a
> luck-up ?
>
> Thank You,
> S o r i n
>
> P.S. A Byzantine THEME [themata; administration unit/military district in
> the Byzantine Empire between 620-1204] was ruled by a duke or KETEPANO and
a
> civil governor [krites or protonotar]. The ketepano had military
> attributions.