List of ancient Greek tyrants

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This is a list of tyrants from Ancient Greece.

Abydus[edit]

Agrigentum (Acragas)[edit]

Alabanda[edit]

Ambracia[edit]

  • Gorgus, son of Cypselus, fl. 628-600 BC
  • Periander, until 580 BC, son of Gorgus and grandson of Periander of Corinth
  • Archinus, 6th century BC [5]

Amastris[edit]

Argos[edit]

Assos & Atarneus[edit]

Astacus[edit]

Athens[edit]

Byzantium[edit]

Cardia[edit]

Camarina[edit]

Cassandreia[edit]

Catane[edit]

Chalcis(Euboea)[edit]

Chersonese[edit]

Chios[edit]

Cibyra[edit]

Corcyra[edit]

Corinth[edit]

Cos[edit]

Croton[edit]

Cumae[edit]

Cyme[edit]

Cyprus[edit]

Cyrene[edit]

Cyzicus[edit]

Dardanos[edit]

  • Mania, killed by her son-in-law c. 399 BC

Elatea[edit]

Elea[edit]

Elis[edit]

Ephesus[edit]

  • Athenagoras, 6th century BC
  • Pythagoras, 6th century BC
  • Pindarus, around 560 BC
  • Aristarchus, around 545-540 BC
  • Pasicles, 540-530 BC, killed when returning from a feast.
  • Aphinagorus, fl. 530 BC
  • Comas, fl. 530 BC
  • Phanes
  • Melancomas, around 500 BC
  • Hegesias, 4th century BC
  • Syrpax, until 334 BC (stoned)
  • Melancomas II, fl. 214 BC

Epidaurus[edit]

Eretria[edit]

Gela[edit]

Halicarnassus[edit]

Heraclea Pontica[edit]

Hermione[edit]

  • Xenon, stepped down 229 BC

Himera[edit]

Keryneia[edit]

Lampsacus[edit]

Larissa[edit]

Leontini[edit]

Lindos[edit]

Locri[edit]

Megalopolis[edit]

Megara[edit]

Messana[edit]

Messene[edit]

Methymnae[edit]

Miletus[edit]

Mytilene[edit]

Naxos[edit]

Orchomenus[edit]

  • Aristomelidas, Archaic period (?)
  • Nearchus, 234 BC (resigned)

Oreus[edit]

Parium[edit]

Pellene[edit]

Pharsalus[edit]

Pherae[edit]

Phlius[edit]

Phocaea[edit]

Phocis[edit]

Pisa[edit]

Priene[edit]

Proconnesus[edit]

Rhegium[edit]

Samos[edit]

Selinus[edit]

  • Theron, 6th/5th century BC
  • Pythagoras, 6th/5th century BC
  • Euryleon of Sparta, 6th/5th century BC (killed)

Sicyon[edit]

Sigeum[edit]

Sinope[edit]

Sparta[edit]

Sybaris[edit]

Syracuse[edit]

Tarentum[edit]

Tarsus[edit]

Tauromenium[edit]

Thasos[edit]

Thebes[edit]

Zeleia[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Herodotus, Histories,4.138
  2. ^ Aeneas Tacticus, 28.6–7,"Ἰφιάδης εἶναι Ἀβυδηνὸς κατὰ Ἑλλήσποντον καταλαμβάνων Πάριον ἄλλα τε περὶ τὴν ἀνάβασιν νυκτὸς ἐπὶ τοῦ τείχους λάθρᾳ παρεσκευάσατο​207 καὶ ἁμάξας πληρώσας φρυγάνων καὶ βάτων παρέπεμψεν πρὸς τὸ τεῖχος, ἤδη τῶν πυλῶν κεκλεισμένων, ὡς τῶν Παριανῶν οὔσας τὰς ἁμάξας, αἵτινες​208 ἐλθοῦσαι πρὸς τὰς πύλας ηὐλίζοντο, ὡς φοβούμεναι πολεμίους. 7 ἃς ἔδει ἐν καιρῷ τινι ὑφαφθῆναι, ἵνα αἱ πύλαι ἐμπρησθῶσι καὶ πρὸς τὸ σβεννύειν τῶν Παριανῶν ὁρμησάντων αὐτὸς κατὰ ἄλλον τόπον εἰσέλθῃ."
  3. ^ a b Heraclides Lembus, Excerpta Politiarum, 69."Ἀκραγαντίνων: […] μεθ’ ὃν Ἀλκαμένης παρέλαβε τὰ πράγματα, καὶ μετὰ τοῦτον Ἄλκανδρος προέστη, ἀνὴρ ἐπιεικής. καὶ εὐθένησαν οὕτως ὡς περιπόρφυρα ἔχειν ἱμάτια." (Constitution of the Acragantines. […] After him [i.e. Phalaris] Alcamenes seized the power, and after him, Alcander, a righteous man, governed. And they flourished to such an extent that they had himations fringed with purple”.) (DILTS 1971)
  4. ^ a b Diod.22.7.2,Polyaen.5.37.1
  5. ^ Aristotle, Constitution of Athens,17.4
  6. ^ Memnon of Heraclea,Chapter 9
  7. ^ Pausanias,2.21.8
  8. ^ Thucydides in Book II of his History of the Peloponnesian War
  9. ^ Hecataetus entry
  10. ^ Thucydides
  11. ^ Plutarch, Solon,14.4
  12. ^ Strabo,13.4
  13. ^ Aristophanes, Politica. v. 12. 1315 b 26; Nicolaus Damascenus, fr. 60, Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum iii. 393
  14. ^ Herodotus,Histories,4.138
  15. ^ Plutarch, Greek Questions 57
  16. ^ Herodotus 8.85,Herodotus,9.90
  17. ^ Pausanias,6.19.1
  18. ^ Frontinus’ “Strategemata”.
  19. ^ Herodotus,5.94
  20. ^ Plutarch,Pericles, 20
  21. ^ Herodotus,3.136.2
  22. ^ Deipnosophistae,book 5,215
  23. ^ Polyaenus: Stratagems,BOOK 2,1.27
  24. ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, §7.288