List of Ancient Greek Tyrants Information
This is a list of tyrants from Ancient Greece.
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Agrigentum (Acragas)
Atarneus
Athens
- Pisistratus, 561 BC, 559 BC-556 BC and 546 BC-528 BC.
- Hipparchus (527 BC-514 BC) and Hippias (527 BC-510 BC), sons of Pisistratus; Hipparchus was murdered by Harmodius and Aristogeiton, the original tyrannicides.
- Theramenes, Critias, and Charicles leading members of the Thirty Tyrants following Athens' defeat in the Peloponnesian War
Argos
- Pheidon, around 650BC
Byzantium
- Clearchus of Sparta, 5th century BC
Corinth
- Cypselus (or Kypselos), 7th century BC
- Periander, son of Cypselus
- Psammetichus, Periander's nephew, who succeeded him but his rule only lasted for three years
Cyprus
Ephesus
- Athenagoras, 6th century BC
- Pythagoras, 6th century BC
- Pindarus, around 560 BC
- Pasicles
Gela
- Cleandrus, 505 BC-498 BC
- Hippocrates, 498 BC-491 BC
- Gelon, 491 BC-485 BC
- Hieron I, 485 BC-466 BC
- Polyzalus?
Heraclea Pontica
Halicarnassus
- Artemisia, 5th century BC
Katane
Megara
- Theagenes, 7th century BC
Miletus
- Amphitres, late 8th or 7th century BC
- Thrasybulus, 7th century BC
- Histiaeus, 6th century BC
- Aristagoras, 6th century BC
- Thoas, 6th century BC
- Damasanor, 6th century BC
- Timarchus, 3rd century BC
Mytilene
- Melandrus, late 7th century BC
- Myrsilus, late 7th century BC, (Alcaeus was against him)
- Coes, 5th century BC
Naxos
- Lygdamis, 6th century BC
Pellene
- Chaeron
Pherae
Rhegium
- Anaxilas 494 BC-474 BC
Samos
- Demoteles, 7th century BC
- Syloson, early 6th century BC
- Polycrates, 535 BC-515 BC
- Douris, 4th century BC
Sicyon
- Orthagoras, 676BC
- Myron I
- Aristonymus
- Myron II and Isodemus, around 600 BC
- Cleisthenes, 600 - 560 BC
- Aeschines, around 510 BC
- Cleon
- Tidas
Syracuse
- Gelon, 491 BC-478 BC
- Hieron I, 478 BC-466 BC
- Thrasybulus, 466 BC-465 BC
- Dionysius the Elder, 405 BC-367 BC
- Dionysius the Younger, 367 BC-356 BC and 347 BC-344 BC
- Dion, 356 BC-347 BC
- Nysaeos, 350 BC-346 BC
- Timoleon, 345 BC-337 BC
- Agathocles, 317 BC-289 BC
- Icetas, 289 BC-280 BC
- Toinon, 280 BC
- Sosistratus, 280 BC-277 BC
- Hiero II, 275 BC-215 BC
- Gelon II, 240 BC-216 BC
- Hieronymus, 215 BC-214 BC
- Adranodoros, 214 BC-212 BC
- Hippocrates, 213 BC-212 BC
- Epicydes, 213 BC-212 BC
- Acestorides ?
- Apollocrates ?
- Heracleides ?
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