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The Greek Tyrannies: c. 650 - 510 BC


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Asia Minor and Greek tryannies


In Asia Minor the Persians were responsible for imposing tyrants on the Ionian cities there because this was the form of government that they preferred. This is what emerges from the poetry of Alcaeus who records the history of the successive tyrannies at Mytilene.
Contents of
The Greek Tyrannies: c. 650 - 510 BC

1 The Period of Greek Tyrannies
2 Pheidon of Argos.
3 Cypselus of Corinth
4 Orthagoras of Sicyon
5 Asia Minor and Greek tryannies

Related articles: (1) The Greek Middle Ages: c. 1125 - c.700 BC, (2) not found