Editing Anax (section)

=== Economic participation ===
''Wánaxes'' have much heavier evidence of participation in state economics, taking a more direct role rather than the hierarchical allocations and lack of evidence for administrative participation. The lands of the ''wánax'' were closely tied to economic output of foods and commodity goods.<ref name=":3" /> Economically, various records exist which refer to ''wanakteros,'' royal craftsmen, under the employ of the ''wánax''.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Papadopoulos|first=John|date=2018|title=Greek Protohistories|journal=World Archaeology|volume=50|issue=5 |pages=690–705 |doi=10.1080/00438243.2019.1568294 |s2cid=219614767 }}</ref> These craftsmen came in a variety of roles, from practical purposes to commodity production,<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3" /> though not all craftsmen were exclusively royal in nature in the Mycenaean economic sphere.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Aprile|first=Jamie|date=2013|title=Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean Greece. The New Political Economy of Nichoria: Using Intrasite Distribution Data to Investigate Regional Institutions|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3764/aja.117.3.0429|journal=American Journal of Archaeology|volume=117|issue=3 |pages=429–436|doi=10.3764/aja.117.3.0429 |jstor=10.3764/aja.117.3.0429 |s2cid=148377869|hdl=2152/31046|hdl-access=free}}</ref> Additionally, the royal designation is applied not only to craftsmen within the economy, but to storehouses of jars believed to contain olive oil; indicating the presence of royal products which were circulated within Mycenaean civilization and beyond.<ref name=":0" /> Royal employment would indicate that the ''wánax'' acts much more closer to the economy as a sort of overseer or administrator than to many of the other tasks of the state. However, much of the records available concerning the role of ''wánax'' deal with economic information due to the importance of such scribal records to Mycenaean states, but does not discredit the participation of the ''wánax'' directly in other facets of the state. Mycenaean elite also utilized luxury items to accentuate their status, and placed high value economically and politically on such items.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":1" />

Another major economic function of the ''wánax'' was the participation in and organization of elaborate feasting amongst the Mycenaean elite, and shared with those outside the immediate palatial elite as well. Feasts required extensive planning and organization on the part of the ''wánax'' and palatial administration, which needed to mobilize large amounts of resources in order to host such elaborate feasts.<ref name=":5" /> A major feature of these feasts involved drinking, as evidenced by the many prestige drinking vessels recovered.<ref name=":5" /> These processes economically involved the collection and feeding of vast quantities of livestock, luxury items for the elite (feasting equipment like luxury pottery and cups) and politically demonstrated the authority of the ''wánax'' with his elite.<ref name=":5" /> One manner in which feasting further secured the ''wánax'' economically and politically was the inclusion of lower elites (local leaders and other non-palatial authorities under the ''wánax'') in feasting, both building social connections to the ''wánax'' and economically persuading lower elites to dedicate resources to palatial feasting.