Examples of tyrant in the following topics:
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- Citizens reacted against
Athens’ defeat, blaming democratic politicians like Cleon and Cleophon, and the
Spartan army encouraged revolt, installing a pro-Spartan oligarchy within
Athens called the Thirty Tyrants in 404 BCE.
- Lysander, the Spartan admiral who
commanded the Spartan fleet at Aegospotami in 405 BCE, helped to organize the
Thirty Tyrants as a government for the 13 months they maintained power.
- During the Thirty Tyrants’ rule, five percent of the
Athenian population was killed, private property was confiscated, and
democratic supporters were exiled.
- This list of men was constantly being revised, and selection
was most likely a reflection of loyalty to the regime, with the majority of
Athenians not supporting the Thirty Tyrants’ rule.
- Athens struggled to recover from the upheaval caused by
the Thirty Tyrants in the years that followed.
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- Archaic Greece from the mid-seventh century onward has been
referred to as an “age of tyrants”.
- The most popular explanation dates
back to Aristotle, who argued that tyrants were set up by the people in response
to the nobility becoming less tolerable.
- Some argue that tyrannies were set up by individuals
who controlled privates armies and that early tyrants did not need the supports
of the people at all.
- Other historians question the existence of a seventh-century
“age of tyrants” altogether.
- As a result, many historians
argue that Greek tyrants were not considered illegitimate rulers and cannot be
distinguished from any other rulers during the same period.
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- A tyranny pretending to be a democracy will turn people off; a tyranny that says it's a tyranny will do fine as long as the tyrant is competent and trusted.
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- Classical Greece rose after the fall of the Athenian tyrants and the institution of Cleisthenes' democratic reforms and lasted throughout the fifth and fourth centuries BCE.
- After struggling to control the cities of Ionia, the Persians appointed tyrants
to rule each of them.
- When the tyrant of Miletus embarked on an unsuccessful expedition
to conquer the island of Naxos with Persian support, however, a rebellion was
incited throughout Hellenic Asia Minor against the Persians.
- In 510 BCE, Spartan troops helped the Athenians overthrow their king, the tyrant Hippias, son of Peisistratos.
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- Finding the Ionians difficult
to rule, the Persians installed tyrants in every city as a means of control.
- At the heart of the rebellion lay a deep dissatisfaction
with the tyrants who were appointed by the Persians to rule the local Greek
communities.
- Specifically, the riot was incited by the Milesian tyrant
Aristagoras, who in the wake of a failed expedition to conquer Naxos, utilized
Greek unrest against Persian king Darius the Great to his own political
purposes.
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- The site was the location of private houses until the sixth century BCE until the Athenian tyrant Peisistratus decided to dedicate the center of the city to public space.
- Tyrants continued to improve the agora with new buildings, temples, fountains, and trees.
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- The caption reads: "Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God".
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- A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. "
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- Philosophers such as Voltaire depicted organized Christianity as a tool of tyrants and oppressors and as being used to defend monarchism.
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- As a consequence, Domitian was popular with the people and army but considered a tyrant by members of the Roman Senate.
- Under the rulers of the Nervan-Antonian dynasty, senatorial authors published histories that elaborated on the view of Domitian as a tyrant.