Title: Tyrant - Wikipedia
Headings: Tyrant
Tyrant
Contents
Etymology
Definition
Early history
Historical forms
Aesymnetes
Populism
Archaic tyrants
Corinth
Athens
Sicilian tyrants
Later tyrants
Roman tyrants
In the classics
Enlightenment
Lists of tyrants
Methods of obtaining and retaining power
Obtaining
Retaining
See also
References
External links

Content: Political and military leaders arose to manage conflicts. All leaders were once tyrants in their own ways. " [ T]he very essence of politics in [agrarian civilizations] was, by our contemporary democratic standards, tyrannical". Eventually alternative forms and methods of government arose which allowed belated definitions and criticism. Historical forms
A sculptural pairing of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, who became known as the tyrannicides after they killed Hipparchus and were the preeminent symbol of Athenian democracy
History has labeled a set of ancient Greek and Sicilian leaders as tyrants. History remembers the rulers, their ris