Editing Anax (section)

=== Roles ===
The origin role of the ''wánax'' may be from warrior roots of migrating Indo-Europeans as a leadership role, eventually leading to the notion of kingship and the formal position and role of the ''wánax'' in Mycenaean times.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Willms|first=Lothar|date=2010|title=On the IE Etymology of Greek (w)anax|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41219890|journal=Glotta|volume=86|issue=1–4 |pages=232–271|doi=10.13109/glot.2010.86.14.232 |jstor=41219890 |issn=0017-1298|url-access=subscription}}</ref> The ''wánax'' during Mycenaean times was at the apex of Mycenaean society, presiding over a centralized state administration with a strong hierarchical organization; a common formula in the Bronze Age Mediterranean and Near East. This is hierarchically likened to a king, and as such much of the duties of the ''wánax'' were related to duties of administration, warfare, diplomacy, economics and religion.