WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Although tyrants in ancient Greece were likely to take and maintain control by force, they were often popular. Most Greek tyrants were military leaders who gained the support if the people by guaranteeing them more rights.

Detailed explanation-2: -tyrant, Greek tyrannos, a cruel and oppressive ruler or, in ancient Greece, a ruler who seized power unconstitutionally or inherited such power.

Detailed explanation-3: -After being defeated in the Peloponnesian War, the Athenian democracy was replaced by an oligarchy known as the Thirty Tyrants.

Detailed explanation-4: -Greek political thought The Greek philosophers stressed the quality of rule rather than legitimacy or absolutism. “Both Plato and Aristotle speak of the king as a good monarch and the tyrant as a bad one.

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.