Abstract：This paper mainly concerns the terms about the political leader in Homer. After analyzing the meanings of the terms in the epics, especially those of Wanax and Basileus, in Homer, it tries to demonstrate that these terms are very vague and are applied not so strictly, many of which are not actually referred to political leaders. This fact shows us that the monarchic and bureaucratic system of the Mycenaean world had collapsed in the Homeric age, the kingship began to decline and the aristocracy began to rise. The polis which characterized classical Greece germinated. Though the background of the epics were put in the Mycenaean age, the true time was the 10th to 8th centuries BC in Greece.
