's an ancient Greek word for "king". It's one of the two Greek titles traditionally translated this way, the other being basileus, which also translates as sovereign. Anax can be interpreted more accurately as "high king". Etymology The word anax derives from the stem wanakt-', and appears in the Mycenaean language, written in Linear B script as . The digamma was pronounced /w/ and was dropped very early by eastern Greek dialects (for example Ionian). The word Anax in the Iliad refers to Agame… (More on Anax)