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List of ancient Greek tyrants

Summary

This is a list of tyrants from Ancient Greece.

Abydus edit

Agrigentum (Acragas) edit

Alabanda edit

Ambracia edit

  • Gorgus, son of Cypselus, fl. 628-600 BC
  • Periander, until 580 BC, son of Gorgus and grandson of Periander of Corinth
  • Archinus, 6th century BC [5]

Amastris edit

Argos edit

Assos & Atarneus edit

Astacus edit

  • Evarchus, c. 430-420 BC[8]

Athens edit

Byzantium edit

Cardia edit

  • Hecataeus, fl. 323 BC [9]

Camarina edit

Cassandreia edit

Catane edit

  • Euarchus, 729 BC-?, founder of Catane[10]
  • Deinomenes the Younger, fl. 470-465 BC
  • Mamercus of Catane, 345-338 BC

Chalcis (Euboea) edit

Chersonese edit

Chios edit

Cibyra edit

  • Moagetes, fl. 190 BC [12]

Corcyra edit

Corinth edit

Cos edit

  • Scythes, late 6th century BC
  • Cadmus, resigned 494 BC
  • Nicias of Cos, 1st century BC
  • Nicippus, 1st century (with Nicias)

Croton edit

  • Cylonius, c. 530 BC
  • Cleinias, c. 504-495 BC
  • Menedemus, until 295 BC (conquered and  †)

Cumae edit

Cyme edit

Cyprus edit

Cyrene edit

Cyzicus edit

  • Aristagoras, c. 513 BC [14]

Dardanos edit

  • Mania, killed by her son-in-law c. 399 BC

Elatea edit

Elea edit

Elis edit

Ephesus edit

  • Athenagoras, 6th century BC
  • Pythagoras, 6th century BC
  • Pindarus, around 560 BC
  • Aristarchus, around 545-540 BC
  • Pasicles, 540-530 BC, killed when returning from a feast.
  • Aphinagorus, fl. 530 BC
  • Comas, fl. 530 BC
  • Phanes
  • Melancomas, around 500 BC
  • Hegesias, 4th century BC
  • Syrpax, until 334 BC (stoned)
  • Melancomas II, fl. 214 BC

Epidaurus edit

  • Procles, 640 BC

Eretria edit

Gela edit

Halicarnassus edit

Heraclea Pontica edit

Hermione edit

  • Xenon, stepped down 229 BC

Himera edit

Keryneia edit

Lampsacus edit

Larissa edit

Leontini edit

Lindos edit

Locri edit

Megalopolis edit

Megara edit

Messana edit

  • Scythes, c. 494 BC
  • Cadmus, c. 494-490 BC
  • Anaxilas, c. 490-476 BC
  • Micythus, c. 476-467 BC (retired)
  • Leophron, c. 467-461 BC (popular revolt)
  • Hippon, c. 338 BC
  • Cios the Mamertine, c. 269 BC  (POW)

Messene edit

  • Phyliades, before 336 BC (?)

Methymnae edit

Miletus edit

Mytilene edit

  • Melandrus, late 7th century BC
  • Myrsilus, late 7th century BC, (Alcaeus was against him)
  • Pittacus, fl. 600 BC (resigned after ten years)
  • Coes, c. 507-499 BC (stoned)

Naxos edit

Orchomenus edit

  • Aristomelidas, Archaic period (?)
  • Nearchus, 234 BC (resigned)

Oreus edit

  • Philistides, c. 341 BC (expelled)
  • Menippus, c. 341 BC (expelled)

Parium edit

  • Herophantus, c. 513 BC

Pellene edit

Pharsalus edit

Pherae edit

Phlius edit

  • Leo, c. 540 BC
  • Cleonymus, before 229 BC (resigned)

Phocaea edit

  • Laodamas, c. 513 BC

Phocis edit

  • Aulis, fl. c. 520 BC
  • Phayllus, fl. 352 BC

Pisa edit

  • Damophon, before 7th century BC (?)
  • Pantaleon, fl. 660-644 BC
  • Damophon, fl. 588 BC
  • Pyrrhus, 6th century BC

Priene edit

  • Hieron of Priene, 300-297 BC

Proconnesus edit

  • Metrodorus, c. 513 BC

Rhegium edit

Samos edit

Selinus edit

  • Theron, 6th/5th century BC
  • Pythagoras, 6th/5th century BC
  • Euryleon of Sparta, 6th/5th century BC (killed)

Sicyon edit

Sigeum edit

  • Hegesistratus, fl. 510 BC[19]

Sinope edit

Sparta edit

Sybaris edit

  • Telys, c. 510 BC

Syracuse edit

Tarentum edit

  • Aristophylidas, c. 516-492 BC[21]

Tarsus edit

  • Lysias, before 67 BC [22]

Tauromenium edit

Thasos edit

  • Symmachus, c. 520 BC [23]

Thebes edit

  • Leontiades, 382-379 BC (killed)
  • Archias, 382-379 BC (killed)

Zeleia edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b Herodotus, Histories,4.138
  2. ^ Aeneas Tacticus, 28.6–7,"Ἰφιάδης εἶναι Ἀβυδηνὸς κατὰ Ἑλλήσποντον καταλαμβάνων Πάριον ἄλλα τε περὶ τὴν ἀνάβασιν νυκτὸς ἐπὶ τοῦ τείχους λάθρᾳ παρεσκευάσατο​207 καὶ ἁμάξας πληρώσας φρυγάνων καὶ βάτων παρέπεμψεν πρὸς τὸ τεῖχος, ἤδη τῶν πυλῶν κεκλεισμένων, ὡς τῶν Παριανῶν οὔσας τὰς ἁμάξας, αἵτινες​208 ἐλθοῦσαι πρὸς τὰς πύλας ηὐλίζοντο, ὡς φοβούμεναι πολεμίους. 7 ἃς ἔδει ἐν καιρῷ τινι ὑφαφθῆναι, ἵνα αἱ πύλαι ἐμπρησθῶσι καὶ πρὸς τὸ σβεννύειν τῶν Παριανῶν ὁρμησάντων αὐτὸς κατὰ ἄλλον τόπον εἰσέλθῃ."
  3. ^ a b Heraclides Lembus, Excerpta Politiarum, 69."Ἀκραγαντίνων: […] μεθ’ ὃν Ἀλκαμένης παρέλαβε τὰ πράγματα, καὶ μετὰ τοῦτον Ἄλκανδρος προέστη, ἀνὴρ ἐπιεικής. καὶ εὐθένησαν οὕτως ὡς περιπόρφυρα ἔχειν ἱμάτια." (Constitution of the Acragantines. […] After him [i.e. Phalaris] Alcamenes seized the power, and after him, Alcander, a righteous man, governed. And they flourished to such an extent that they had himations fringed with purple”.) (DILTS 1971)
  4. ^ a b Diod.22.7.2,Polyaen.5.37.1
  5. ^ Aristotle, Constitution of Athens,17.4
  6. ^ Memnon of Heraclea,Chapter 9
  7. ^ Pausanias,2.21.8
  8. ^ Thucydides in Book II of his History of the Peloponnesian War
  9. ^ Hecataetus entry
  10. ^ Thucydides
  11. ^ Plutarch, Solon,14.4
  12. ^ Strabo,13.4
  13. ^ Aristophanes, Politica. v. 12. 1315 b 26; Nicolaus Damascenus, fr. 60, Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum iii. 393
  14. ^ Herodotus,Histories,4.138
  15. ^ Plutarch, Greek Questions 57
  16. ^ Herodotus 8.85,Herodotus,9.90
  17. ^ Pausanias,6.19.1
  18. ^ Frontinus’ “Strategemata”.
  19. ^ Herodotus,5.94
  20. ^ Plutarch,Pericles, 20
  21. ^ Herodotus,3.136.2
  22. ^ Deipnosophistae,book 5,215
  23. ^ Polyaenus: Stratagems,BOOK 2,1.27
  24. ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, §7.288

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