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Print/export Download as PDF ... This is a list of tyrants from Ancient Greece. Abydus. Daphnis, c. 500 BC under Darius I (pro persian ... List of ancient Greek tyrants.
In Archaic Greece, the term tyrant did not connote malevolence. A tyrant was one who had seized power and ruled outside of a state's constitutional law. When Peisistratus died in 528/7 BC, his son Hippias took the position of Archon and became the new tyrant of Athens, with the help of his brother, Hipparchus, who acted as the minister of ...
Periander (/ ˌ p ɛ r i ˈ æ n d ər /; Greek: Περίανδρος; died c. 585 BC) was the second tyrant of the Cypselid dynasty that ruled over ancient Corinth.Periander's rule brought about a prosperous time in Corinth's history, as his administrative skill made Corinth one of the wealthiest city states in Greece. [1]
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] (Greek: Λύγδαμις) was the tyrant of Naxos, an island in the Cyclades, during the third quarter of the 6th Century BC. He was initially a member of the oligarchy which ruled Naxos. In 546 BC, Lygdamis supported the former Athenian tyrant Peisistratos in his landing at Marathon, which led to the restoration of Peisistratos to power in ...
Map showing Phyle during the Phyle Campaign. The Thirty Tyrants had left Athens' border forts ungarrisoned, both out of deference to Sparta and because of their cash shortage. This allowed a group of Athenian exiles to seize the fort of Phyle [1] in 404/403 BCE. [3]
There is evidence of mercenaries (misthophoroi (plural), misthios (singular male), misthia (singular female) in Greek) being hired in Ancient Greece from the 6th century BC. The tyrants of that time hired bodyguards from other city-states. [2] It is not known if earlier Aegean armies and navies, such as the Minoans and Mycenaeans, used mercenaries.
Print/export Download as PDF; ... This category contains the tyrants of Archaic Greece. Pages in category "Archaic tyrants" The following 15 pages are in this ...