WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Thus, the tyrants of the Archaic age of ancient Greece (c. 900–500 bce)-Cypselus, Cleisthenes, Peisistratus, and Polycrates-were popular, presiding as they did over an era of prosperity and expansion.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dictator – Political leader who possesses absolute power.

Detailed explanation-3: -In a tyranny, the ruling power is in the hands of one person who is not a lawful king. A tyranny is different from a monarchy in two ways. First tyrant cannot claim that he has a legal right to rule. Second, a tyrant’s son does not usually inherit his father’s power.

Detailed explanation-4: -In ancient Greece, a tyrant was simply a person who ruled a city-state by themselves, but who lacked the traditional or constitutional authority of a king or elected leader.

Detailed explanation-5: -Phalaris, 570-554 BC (overthrown and roasted) Telemachus, after 554 BC. Alcamenes, 6th/5th century BC. Alcandros(Alcander), 6th/5th century BC. Theron, 488-472 BC. Thrasydaeus, 472 BC (expelled and executed) Phintias, c. 288-279 BC. Sosistratus, 279-277 BC.Later tyrant in Syracuse.