Tyrant, the Glossary
A tyrant, in the modern English usage of the word, is an absolute ruler who is unrestrained by law, or one who has usurped a legitimate ruler's sovereignty.[1]
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149 relations: Abantidas, Achaean League, Achaemenid Empire, Aegean Sea, Agathocles of Syracuse, Age of Enlightenment, Alexander Shields, Alexander the Great, Ancient Carthage, Ancient Corinth, Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek, Antigonus II Gonatas, Aratus of Sicyon, Arcadia (region), Archaic Greece, Archilochus, Argolis, Aristippus of Argos, Aristocracy, Aristodemus the Good, Aristomachos I, Aristomachos II, Aristotle, Assassination, Athena, Athens, Attila, Autocracy, Bacchiadae, Bodyguard, Chilon of Sparta, Cicero, Classical Greece, Cleisthenes, Cleisthenes of Sicyon, Cleon of Sicyon, Constitutional right, Corinthia, Crimes against humanity, Cypselus, Damocles, Dante Alighieri, Deme, Democracy, Demokratia, Dionysia, Dionysius I of Syracuse, Dionysius II of Syracuse, Discourses on Livy, ... Expand index (99 more) »
- Ancient Greek government
- Ancient Greek tyrants
- Ancient Roman government
Abantidas
Abantidas (in Greek Ἀβαντίδας) (died 252 BC), the son of Paseas, became tyrant of the ancient Greek city-state of Sicyon in 264 BC after murdering Cleinias, the father of Aratus. Tyrant and Abantidas are ancient Greek tyrants.
Achaean League
The Achaean League (League of Achaeans) was a Hellenistic-era confederation of Greek city-states on the northern and central Peloponnese.
Achaemenid Empire
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.
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Aegean Sea
The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Asia.
Agathocles of Syracuse
Agathocles (Ἀγαθοκλῆς, Agathoklḗs; 361–289 BC) was a Greek tyrant of Syracuse (317–289 BC) and self-styled king of Sicily (304–289 BC).
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Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
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Alexander Shields
Alexander Shields or Sheilds or Sheills (January 1661 – 1700) was a Scottish, Presbyterian, nonconformist minister, activist, and author.
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Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon (Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.
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Ancient Carthage
Ancient Carthage (𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕) was an ancient Semitic civilisation based in North Africa.
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Ancient Corinth
Corinth (Κόρινθος; Ϙόρινθος; Corinthus) was a city-state (polis) on the Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnese peninsula to the mainland of Greece, roughly halfway between Athens and Sparta.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
Antigonus II Gonatas
Antigonus II Gonatas (Ἀντίγονος Γονατᾶς,; – 239 BC) was a Macedonian ruler who solidified the position of the Antigonid dynasty in Macedon after a long period defined by anarchy and chaos and acquired fame for his victory over the Gauls who had invaded the Balkans.
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Aratus of Sicyon
Aratus of Sicyon (Ancient Greek: Ἄρατος ὁ Σικυώνιος; 271–213 BC) was a politician and military commander of Hellenistic Greece.
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Arcadia (region)
Arcadia (Arkadía) is a region in the central Peloponnese.
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Archaic Greece
Archaic Greece was the period in Greek history lasting from to the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, following the Greek Dark Ages and succeeded by the Classical period.
Archilochus
Archilochus (Ἀρχίλοχος Arkhílokhos; c. 680 – c. 645 BC) was a Greek lyric poet of the Archaic period from the island of Paros.
Argolis
Argolis or Argolida (Αργολίδα,; Ἀργολίς, in ancient Greek and Katharevousa) is one of the regional units of Greece.
Aristippus of Argos
Aristippus of Argos (Ἀρίστιππος) was a tyrant of Argos in the 3rd century BC. Tyrant and Aristippus of Argos are ancient Greek tyrants.
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Aristocracy
Aristocracy is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocrats. Tyrant and Aristocracy are ancient Greek government.
Aristodemus the Good
Aristodemus (Ἀριστόδημος) was a tyrant of the Greek city of Megalopolis. Tyrant and Aristodemus the Good are ancient Greek tyrants.
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Aristomachos I
Aristomachos the Elder was a tyrant of the ancient Greek city of Argos. Tyrant and Aristomachos I are ancient Greek tyrants.
Aristomachos II
Aristomachos of Argos (Ἀριστόμαχος) was a general of the Achaean League in Ancient Greece who served only for a year, 228 – 227 BCE. Tyrant and Aristomachos II are ancient Greek tyrants.
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Aristotle
Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
Assassination
Assassination is the willful killing, by a sudden, secret, or planned attack, of a personespecially if prominent or important.
Athena
Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.
Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.
Attila
Attila, frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death, in early 453.
Autocracy
Autocracy is a system of government in which absolute power is held by the ruler, known as an autocrat. Tyrant and Autocracy are Authoritarianism and Dictatorship.
Bacchiadae
The Bacchiadae (Βακχιάδαι Bakkhiadai), a tightly knit Doric clan, were the ruling family of ancient Corinth in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE, a period of Corinthian cultural power.
Bodyguard
A bodyguard (or close protection officer/operative) is a type of security guard, government law enforcement officer, or servicemember who protects a person or a group of people — usually witnesses, high-ranking public officials or officers, wealthy people, and celebrities — from danger: generally theft, assault, kidnapping, assassination, harassment, loss of confidential information, threats, or other criminal offences.
Chilon of Sparta
Chilon of Sparta (Χείλων) (fl. 6th century BC) was a Spartan and one of the Seven Sages of Greece.
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Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire.
Classical Greece
Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (the 5th and 4th centuries BC) in Ancient Greece,The "Classical Age" is "the modern designation of the period from about 500 B.C. to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C." (Thomas R. Martin, Ancient Greece, Yale University Press, 1996, p.
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Cleisthenes
Cleisthenes (Κλεισθένης), or Clisthenes, was an ancient Athenian lawgiver credited with reforming the constitution of ancient Athens and setting it on a democratic footing in 508 BC.
Cleisthenes of Sicyon
Cleisthenes (Κλεισθένης) was the tyrant of Sicyon from c. 600–560 BC, who aided in the First Sacred War against Kirrha that destroyed that city in 595 BC.
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Cleon of Sicyon
Cleon (Κλέων Kleon) was a tyrant of the ancient Greek city-state of Sicyon. Tyrant and Cleon of Sicyon are ancient Greek tyrants.
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Constitutional right
A constitutional right can be a prerogative or a duty, a power or a restraint of power, recognized and established by a sovereign state or union of states.
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Corinthia
Corinthia (Korinthía) is one of the regional units of Greece.
Crimes against humanity
Crimes against humanity are certain serious crimes committed as part of a large-scale attack against civilians.
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Cypselus
Cypselus (Κύψελος, Kypselos) was the first tyrant of Corinth in the 7th century BC.
Damocles
Damocles is a character who appears in a (likely apocryphal) anecdote commonly referred to as "the sword of Damocles", an allusion to the imminent and ever-present peril faced by those in positions of power.
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (– September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and widely known and often referred to in English mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.
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Deme
In Ancient Greece, a deme or (δῆμος, plural: demoi, δήμοι) was a suburb or a subdivision of Athens and other city-states. Tyrant and deme are ancient Greek government.
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Democracy
Democracy (from dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state.
Demokratia
Demokratia (δημοκρατία dēmokratía) is a direct democracy, as opposed to the modern representative democracy.
Dionysia
The Dionysia (Greek: Διονύσια) was a large festival in ancient Athens in honor of the god Dionysus, the central events of which were the theatrical performances of dramatic tragedies and, from 487 BC, comedies.
Dionysius I of Syracuse
Dionysius I or Dionysius the Elder (432 – 367 BC) was a Greek tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily.
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Dionysius II of Syracuse
Dionysius the Younger (Διονύσιος ὁ Νεώτερος, 343 BC), or Dionysius II, was a Greek politician who ruled Syracuse, Sicily from 367 BC to 357 BC and again from 346 BC to 344 BC.
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Discourses on Livy
The Discourses on Livy (Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio) is a work of political history and philosophy written in the early 16th century (c. 1517) by the Italian writer and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli, best known as the author of The Prince.
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Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun 1308 and completed around 1321, shortly before the author's death.
Divine right of kings
In European Christianity, the divine right of kings, divine right, or God's mandation, is a political and religious doctrine of political legitimacy of a monarchy.
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Edward Sexby
Colonel Edward Sexby (or Saxby; 1616 – 13 January 1658) was an English Puritan soldier and Leveller in the army of Oliver Cromwell.
Electoral fraud
Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud, or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a favored candidate, depressing the vote share of rival candidates, or both.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Encyclopédie
Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts, better known as Encyclopédie, was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations.
English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Ephor
The ephors were a board of five magistrates in ancient Sparta. Tyrant and ephor are ancient Greek titles.
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Gelon
Gelon also known as Gelo (Greek: Γέλων Gelon, gen.: Γέλωνος; died 478 BC), son of Deinomenes, was a Greek tyrant of the Sicilian cities Gela and Syracuse, Sicily, and first of the Deinomenid rulers.
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George III
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820.
Greek hero cult
Hero cults were one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion.
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Gyges of Lydia
Gyges (Lydian: 𐤨𐤰𐤨𐤠𐤮; 𒁹𒄖𒊌𒄖, 𒁹𒄖𒄖; Gugēs; Gygēs; reigned c. 680-644 BC) was the founder of the Mermnad dynasty of Lydian kings and the first known king of the Lydian kingdom to have attempted to transform it into a powerful empire.
Harmodius and Aristogeiton
Harmodius (Greek: Ἁρμόδιος, Harmódios) and Aristogeiton (Ἀριστογείτων, Aristogeíton; both died 514 BC) were two lovers in Classical Athens who became known as the Tyrannicides (τυραννόκτονοι, tyrannoktonoi) for their assassination of Hipparchus, the brother of the tyrant Hippias, for which they were executed.
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Hegemony
Hegemony is the political, economic, and military predominance of one state over other states, either regional or global.
Henry VIII
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.
Herod the Great
Herod I or Herod the Great was a Roman Jewish client king of the Herodian Kingdom of Judea.
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Hiero I of Syracuse
Hieron I (Ἱέρων Α΄; usually Latinized Hiero) was the son of Deinomenes, the brother of Gelon and tyrant of Syracuse in Sicily, from 478 to 467 BC.
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Hipparchus (brother of Hippias)
Hipparchus (Ἵππαρχος||; died 514 BC) was a member of the ruling class of Athens and one of the sons of Pisistratus. Tyrant and Hipparchus (brother of Hippias) are ancient Greek tyrants.
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Hoplite
Hoplites (hoplîtai) were citizen-soldiers of Ancient Greek city-states who were primarily armed with spears and shields. Tyrant and Hoplite are ancient Greek titles.
Human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.
Inferno (Dante)
Inferno (Italian for 'Hell') is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century narrative poem The Divine Comedy.
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John Boardman (art historian)
Sir John Boardman, (20 August 1927 – 23 May 2024) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian of ancient Greek art.
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John Locke
John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism".
John, King of England
John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216.
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Jona Lendering
Jona Lendering (born 29 October 1964) is a Dutch historian and the author of books on antiquity, Dutch history and modern management.
Josephus
Flavius Josephus (Ἰώσηπος,; AD 37 – 100) was a Roman–Jewish historian and military leader.
Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman.
Julius Caesar (play)
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar), often abbreviated as Julius Caesar, is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare first performed in 1599.
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Killing No Murder
Killing No Murder is a pamphlet published in 1657 during The Protectorate period of the English Interregnum era of English history.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Law
Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate.
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Lex, Rex
Lex, Rex is a book by the Scottish Presbyterian minister Samuel Rutherford.
List of ancient Greek tyrants
This is a list of tyrants from Ancient Greece. Tyrant and list of ancient Greek tyrants are ancient Greek tyrants.
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List of tyrants of Syracuse
Syracuse (Συρακοῦσαι) was an ancient Greek city-state, located on the east coast of Sicily, Magna Graecia.
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Lydiadas of Megalopolis
Lydiadas of Megalopolis (Λυδιάδας ὁ Μεγαλοπολίτης) or Lydiades (Λυδιάδης) was an ancient Greek tyrant of his city Megalopolis in Arcadia. Tyrant and Lydiadas of Megalopolis are ancient Greek tyrants.
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Lydian language
Lydian is an extinct Indo-European Anatolian language spoken in the region of Lydia, in western Anatolia (now in Turkey).
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Maccabees
The Maccabees, also spelled Machabees (מַכַּבִּים, or מַקַבִּים,; Machabaei or Maccabaei; Μακκαβαῖοι), were a group of Jewish rebel warriors who took control of Judea, which at the time was part of the Seleucid Empire.
Macedonia (ancient kingdom)
Macedonia (Μακεδονία), also called Macedon, was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, which later became the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece.
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Marathon, Greece
Marathon (Demotic Greek: Μαραθώνας, Marathónas; Attic/Katharevousa: Μαραθών, Marathṓn) is a town in Greece and the site of the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE, in which the heavily outnumbered Athenian army defeated the Persians.
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Marcus Junius Brutus
Marcus Junius Brutus (85 BC – 23 October 42 BC) was a Roman politician, orator, and the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Megaris
Megaris (Μεγαρίς) was a small but populous state of ancient Greece, west of Attica and north of Corinthia, whose inhabitants were adventurous seafarers, credited with deceitful propensities.
Mercenary
A mercenary, also called a merc, soldier of fortune, or hired gun, is a private individual who joins an armed conflict for personal profit, is otherwise an outsider to the conflict, and is not a member of any other official military.
Middle English
Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century.
Military
A military, also known collectively as an armed forces, are a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare.
Minoritarianism
In political science, minoritarianism (or minorityism) is a neologism for a political structure or process in which a minority group of a population has a certain degree of primacy in that population's decision making, with legislative power or judicial power being held or controlled by a minority group rather than a majority that is representative of the population.
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Monarchy
A monarchy is a form of government in which a person, the monarch, is head of state for life or until abdication. Tyrant and monarchy are positions of authority.
Moses
Moses; Mōše; also known as Moshe or Moshe Rabbeinu (Mishnaic Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּינוּ); Mūše; Mūsā; Mōÿsēs was a Hebrew prophet, teacher and leader, according to Abrahamic tradition.
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Nabis of Sparta
Nabis (Νάβις) was the last king of independent Sparta.
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Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance.
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Nimrod
Nimrod (ܢܡܪܘܕ; Numrūd) is a biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis and Books of Chronicles.
Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century.
Oligarchy
Oligarchy is a conceptual form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people. Tyrant and Oligarchy are Authoritarianism.
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English statesman, politician, and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of the British Isles.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Panathenaic Games
The Panathenaic Games (Παναθήναια) were held every four years in Athens in Ancient Greece from 566 BC to the 3rd century AD.
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Patriotism
Patriotism is the feeling of love, devotion, and a sense of attachment to a country or state.
Pelasgians
The name Pelasgians (Pelasgoí, singular: Πελασγός Pelasgós) was used by Classical Greek writers to refer either to the predecessors of the Greeks, or to all the inhabitants of Greece before the emergence of the Greeks.
Peloponnese
The Peloponnese, Peloponnesus (Pelopónnēsos) or Morea (Mōrèas; Mōriàs) is a peninsula and geographic region in Southern Greece, and the southernmost region of the Balkans.
Periander
Periander (Περίανδρος; died c. 585 BC) was the second tyrant of the Cypselid dynasty that ruled over ancient Corinth.
Pisistratus
Pisistratus (also spelled Peisistratus or Peisistratos; Πεισίστρατος; – 527 BC) was a politician in ancient Athens, ruling as tyrant in the late 560s, the early 550s and from 546 BC until his death.
Plato
Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.
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Plutarch
Plutarch (Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos;; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.
Polis
Polis (πόλις), plural poleis (πόλεις), means ‘city’ in ancient Greek.
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Political repression
Political repression is the act of a state entity controlling a citizenry by force for political reasons, particularly for the purpose of restricting or preventing the citizenry's ability to take part in the political life of a society, thereby reducing their standing among their fellow citizens.
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Polybius
Polybius (Πολύβιος) was a Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period.
Polycrates
Polycrates (Πολυκράτης), son of Aeaces, was the tyrant of Samos from the 540s BC to 522 BC.
Pre-Greek substrate
The pre-Greek substrate (or substratum) consists of the unknown Pre-Indo-European languages spoken in prehistoric Greece prior to the emergence of the Proto-Greek language in the region, during the Early Helladic period.
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Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.
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Purge
In history, religion and political science, a purge is a position removal or execution of people who are considered undesirable by those in power from a government, another organization, their team leaders, or society as a whole.
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Republic
A republic, based on the Latin phrase res publica ('public affair'), is a state in which political power rests with the public through their representatives—in contrast to a monarchy.
Republic (Plato)
The Republic (Politeia) is a Socratic dialogue, authored by Plato around 375 BC, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man.
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Robert S. P. Beekes
Robert Stephen Paul Beekes (2 September 1937 – 21 September 2017) was a Dutch linguist who was emeritus professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University and an author of many monographs on the Proto-Indo-European language.
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Roman Republic
The Roman Republic (Res publica Romana) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium.
Roman Senate
The Roman Senate (Senātus Rōmānus) was the highest and constituting assembly of ancient Rome and its aristocracy. Tyrant and Roman Senate are ancient Roman government.
Samos
Samos (also; Sámos) is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese archipelago, and off the coast of western Turkey, from which it is separated by the Mycale Strait.
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Samuel Rutherford
Samuel Rutherford (also Rutherfurd or Rutherfoord; – 29 March 1661) was a Scottish Presbyterian pastor and theologian and one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly.
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Sicily
Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
Sicyon
Sicyon (Σικυών; gen.: Σικυῶνος) or Sikyōn was an ancient Greek city state situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth and Achaea on the territory of the present-day regional unit of Corinthia.
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
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Solon
Solon (Σόλων; BC) was an archaic Athenian statesman, lawmaker, political philosopher, and poet.
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Sparta
Sparta was a prominent city-state in Laconia in ancient Greece.
State terrorism
State terrorism refers to acts of terrorism which a state conducts against another state or against its own citizens.
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Suetonius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as Suetonius (– after AD 122), was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire.
Tacitus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus (–), was a Roman historian and politician.
Thales of Miletus
Thales of Miletus (Θαλῆς) was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor.
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The Prince
The Prince (Il Principe; De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by the Italian diplomat, philosopher, and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli in the form of a realistic instruction guide for new princes.
The Twelve Caesars
De vita Caesarum (Latin; "About the Life of the Caesars"), commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.
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Thirty Tyrants
The Thirty Tyrants (οἱ τριάκοντα τύραννοι, hoi triákonta týrannoi) were an oligarchy that briefly ruled Athens from 405 BC to 404 BC.
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher.
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
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Two Treatises of Government
Two Treatises of Government (full title: Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter Is an Essay Concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government) is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke.
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Tyrannicide
Tyrannicide or tyrannomachia is the killing or assassination of a tyrant or unjust ruler, purportedly for the common good, and usually by one of the tyrant's subjects. Tyrant and Tyrannicide are Dictatorship.
Tyranny of the majority
The tyranny of the majority (or tyranny of the masses) is an inherent weakness to majority rule in which the majority of an electorate pursues exclusively its own objectives at the expense of those of the minority factions. Tyrant and tyranny of the majority are Authoritarianism.
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United States Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen States of America in both the engrossed version and the original printing, is the founding document of the United States.
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Usurper
A usurper is an illegitimate or controversial claimant to power, often but not always in a monarchy. Tyrant and usurper are positions of authority.
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire (also), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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Xenon (tyrant)
Xenon (in Greek Ξενων) was the last tyrant of the ancient Greek city of Hermione. Tyrant and Xenon (tyrant) are ancient Greek tyrants.
See also
Ancient Greek government
- Aeinautae
- Aristocracy
- Athenian democracy
- Basileus
- Boule (ancient Greece)
- Deme
- Demiurge (magistrate)
- Demoi
- Eupatridae
- Greek city-states
- Harmost
- Stasis (ancient Greece)
- Tyrant
Ancient Greek tyrants
- Abantidas
- Aeinautae
- Amastris (ruler of Heraclea)
- Apollodorus of Cassandreia
- Aristippus of Argos
- Aristodemus of Cumae
- Aristodemus the Good
- Aristomachos I
- Aristomachos II
- Aristonicus of Methymnae
- Aristotimus
- Aristratus of Sicyon
- Chaeron of Pellene
- Clearchus of Heraclea
- Clearchus of Sparta
- Cleitarchus of Eretria
- Cleon of Sicyon
- Coes of Mytilene
- Dionysius of Heraclea
- Duris of Samos
- Euphron
- Euthydemus (tyrant)
- Hipparchus (brother of Hippias)
- Leo of Phlius
- Leontiades
- List of ancient Greek tyrants
- Lydiadas of Megalopolis
- Machanidas
- Miltiades
- Nearchus of Elea
- Nearchus of Orchomenus
- Nicocles of Sicyon
- Oxyathres of Heraclea
- Paseas
- Plutarch of Eretria
- Themison of Eretria
- Timarchus of Miletus
- Timocleidas
- Timophanes
- Timotheus of Heraclea
- Tyrant
- Xenon (tyrant)
Ancient Roman government
- A cognitionibus
- Acta Senatus
- Agentes in rebus
- Alabarch
- Apparitor
- Contio
- Conventus iuridicus
- Cursus honorum
- Decurio
- Fasces
- Fetial
- Imperium
- Local government (ancient Roman)
- Lyon Tablet
- Officium (ancient Rome)
- Political institutions of ancient Rome
- Primicerius
- Princeps
- Promagistrate
- Quaestio perpetua
- Roman Senate
- Roman emergency decrees
- SPQR
- Scriba (ancient Rome)
- Stele of Quintus Aemilius Secundus
- Summa honoraria
- Tabula patronatus
- Tyrant
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrant
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