Title: Ancient Greek Tyrants, What is meant by Demokratia
Headings: Ancient Greece Tyrants
Ancient Greece Tyrants
Ancient Greek Tyrants
Tyrannos
Democracy Definition Greek
What is meant by Demokratia
Oligarchy in ancient Greece
Tyranny Government

Content: An Aesymnetes also experienced similar scope of power to the tyrant, such as Pittacus of Mytilene between 640 to 568 BC, and was elected for life or for a specified period by a city-state in a time of crisis; the only difference being that the Aesymnetes was a constitutional office and were comparable to the Roman dictator. Magistrates in some city-states were also called Aesymnetai. Tyranny Government
The glory days of the Archaic period Ancient Greece Tyrants came in the early 6th century BC, when Cleisthenes ruled Sicyon in the Peloponnesus and Polycrates ruled Samos. During this time, revolts overthrew many governments in the Aegean world. Chilon, the ambitious and capable ephor of Sparta, built a strong alliance amongst neighboring states by making common cause with these groups seeking to oppose the much disliked tyrannical rule. By superseding against the tyrants of Sicyon, Corinth, and Athens, Sparta thus came to assume Hellenic leadership prior to the Persian invasions. Simultaneously Persia first started making inroads into Greece, and many tyrants sought Persian help against forces seeking to remove them. Greek tyranny in the main grew out of the struggle of the popular classes against the aristocracy or against the kings where archaic traditions and mythology sanctioned hereditary rights to rule. Popular coups generally installed tyrants, who often remained popular rulers, at least during the early part of their reigns.