古雅典
In Ancient Greece the title/rank was held by a number of officers in the armies of several but not all city-states, with Sparta being a notable exception. In Classical Athens, there were ten taxiarchs, one for each of the city's tribes ("phylai"), a subordinate to the respective "strategos". The perhaps most famous taxiarchs however were those of the ancient Macedonian "Pezhetairoi" infantry.