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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 4345046, member: 57463&quot;]The Greek word is oikist (οἶκιστής‎).</p><p>From the <a href="https://oxfordre.com/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-2717" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://oxfordre.com/classics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-2717" rel="nofollow">Oxford Classical Dictionary online</a>:</p><p><font face="Book Antiqua">Founders were chiefly important before Alexander the Great in the case of colonies (see apoikia), founded under the leadership of an oikist (οἶκιστής‎), whose achievements frequently led to his posthumous worship as a hero (see hero-cult). In 5th-cent. BCE Athens oikists were state officials who returned home after completing their task, as with Hagnon at Amphipolis. Among Hellenistic founders of cities (ktistēs was now the preferred term) kings naturally loomed largest, although not all attended in person the founding rituals like Alexander the Great ...</font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1100287[/ATTACH]</p><p>From Leu Numismatics, Taras as the oikestes of the town with his name. (Punic occupation issue.) Seaching CoinArchives revealed many of these, though no others attributed with OIKIST. The word was more common in identifying other Ancient Greek coins in attributions of 100 years ago based on <i>Historia Numorum</i> and other works of the time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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