The Ancient Greek "Age of Tyrants" is usually thought of as a period of usurpers, revolution and dictators, when ambitious men broke the mold of monarchal and aristocratic power to establish tyrannical regimes. But how true to reality is this perception? Just how "tyrannical" were these Tyrants?
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Sources:
Herodotus 1.59 - 1.64, 3.48 - 3.53, 5.92
Thucydides 6.54
Archilochus fr. 19
Semonides fr. 67 - 70
Anderson, G. (2005). Before Turannoi Were Tyrants: Rethinking a Chapter of Early Greek History. Classical Antiquity, 24(2), 173-222. doi.org/10.152...
Parker, V. (2007). Tyrants and Lawgivers. In H. Shapiro (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece (Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World, pp. 13-39). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CCOL9780521822008.002
Andrewes, A. (1956). The Greek tyrants. Hutchinson University Library.
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