List of ancient Greek tyrants

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This is a list of tyrants from Ancient Greece.

Contents 1 Agrigentum 2 Atarneus 3 Athens 4 Byzantium 5 Corinth 6 Cyprus 7 Ephesus 8 Gela 9 Heraclea Pontica 10 Halicarnassus 11 Katane 12 Megara 13 Miletus 14 Naxos 15 Pellene 16 Pherae 17 Rhegium 18 Samos 19 Sicyon 20 Syracuse

[edit] Agrigentum

• Phalaris, 570 BC-554 BC
• Theron, 488 BC-472 BC

[edit] Atarneus

• Hermias of Atarneus

[edit] 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

[edit] Byzantium

• Clearchus of Sparta, 5th century BC

[edit] Corinth

• Cypselus (or Kypselos), 7th century BC
• Periander, son of Cypselus

[edit] Cyprus

• Nicocreon

[edit] Ephesus

• Athenagoras, 6th century BC

[edit] Gela

• Cleandrus, 505 BC-498 BC
• Hippocrates, 498 BC-491 BC
• Gelo, 491 BC-485 BC
• Hiero, 485 BC-466 BC
• Polyzalus?

[edit] Heraclea Pontica

• Clearchus
• Timotheus
• Dionysius
• Oxyathres

[edit] Halicarnassus

• Artemisia, 5th century BC

[edit] Katane

• Euarchus, 729 BC-?
• Deinomenes, 470 BC-465 BC
• Mamercus, 335 BC-338 BC

[edit] Megara

• Theagenes, 7th century BC

[edit] Miletus

• Thrasybulus, 7th century BC
• Histiaeus, 6th century BC
• Aristagoras, 6th century BC

[edit] Naxos

• Lygdamnos, 6th century BC

[edit] Pellene

• Chaeron

[edit] Pherae

• Jason, assassinated 370 BC
• Alexander, son of Jason, 369 BC-358 BC

[edit] Rhegium

• Anaxilas

[edit] Samos

• Polycrates, 535 BC-515 BC
• Douris, 4th century BC

[edit] Sicyon

• Cleisthenes, 6th century BC
• Cleon
• Tidas

[edit] Syracuse

• Gelo, 491 BC-478 BC
• Hiero 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
• Gelo 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 ?