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*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts of the tyrants *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “States are as the men are; they grow out of human characters. Like State, like man.” – Plato, The Republic Tyranny in ancient Greece was not a phenomenon limited to any particular period. Tyrants could be found in power throughout Greece, ruling poleis from the 7th century B.C. right through to the 2nd century B.C., when Roman domination effectively put an end to this form of government throughout the Hellenistic world. That said, the heyday of tyranny was undoubtedly the 7th and 6th centuries B.C., and it is in this period, known as the “Age of Tyrants,” that large numbers of tyrannies arose, particularly in the Peloponnese. The “Age of Tyrants” ended on the Greek mainland with the expulsion of the Peisistratidai in 510 B.C., but it continued in other parts of the Greek world, particularly in the Greek cities of Sicily, where tyranny did not finally end until the removal of Dionysius II of Syracuse in 344 B.C. In Asia Minor, tyranny survived the Persian conquest until the days of the Roman conquest. The governments of the maj

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Charles River Editors

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Charles River Editors

Published

2016

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EN

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nonfiction