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Melas the Elder, 7th century BC, brother-in-law to king Gyges; Miletus, grandson of Melas, son-in-law of king Ardys; Pythagoras, son of Miletus, 6th century BC
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A tyrant (from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos) 'absolute ruler'), in the modern English usage of the word, is an absolute ruler who is unrestrained by law, or one who has usurped a legitimate ruler's sovereignty. Often portrayed as cruel, tyrants may defend their positions by resorting to repressive means.
Tyrant of Athens: 514 BC: Athens: Athens: Harmodius and Aristogeiton [15] Xerxes I: Achaemenid King of Kings: August 465 BC: Persia Achaemenid Persia: Artabanus, commander of the royal bodyguard [16] Xerxes II: 424 BC: Persepolis: Sogdianus, Xerxes' half-brother [17] Sogdianus: 423 BC: Darius II, Sogdianus's half-brother [17] Dion: Tyrant of ...
Throughout much of its history as an independent city, it was governed by a succession of tyrants, with only short periods of democracy and oligarchy. While Pindar addressed the Deinomenids as kings in his odes, it is not clear that this (or any other title) was officially used by any of the tyrants until Agathocles adopted the title in 304.
The Thirty Tyrants (Latin: Tyranni Triginta) were a series of thirty rulers who appear in the Historia Augusta, as having ostensibly been pretenders to the throne of the Roman Empire during the reign of the emperor Gallienus. Given the notorious unreliability of the Historia Augusta, the veracity of this list is