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Tyrant

A tyrant (from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos) 'absolute ruler') is an absolute ruler who is unrestrained by law, or one who has usurped a legitimate ruler's sovereignty. Often portrayed as cruel, tyrants may defend their positions by resorting to repressive means.

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Enlightenment

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related to Later tyrants · 33
Tyrant → Abantidas, Achaean League, Achaeans, Against, Antigonus II Gonatas, Aratus, Arcadia, Argolis, Argos, Aristippus, Aristodemus, Aristomachus, Aristomachus II, BC, Cleon, Corinthia, Examples, From, Greece, Greek
related to Archaic tyrants · 26
Tyrant → Aegean, Archaic, Archilochus, Athens, BC, By, Chilon, Cleisthenes, Corinth, During, Greece, Greek, Gyges, Hellenic, King Candaules, Lydia, One, Peloponnesus, Persia, Persian
related to In works of political science · 16
Tyrant → Alexander, Attila, Comedy, Dante Alighieri's The Divine, Great, Great Ideas, Hell, Hun, If, The, These, They, Thomas Hobbes, Tyranny, Western, While
related to Sicilian tyrants · 15
Tyrant → Agathocles, Archaic, Carthaginian, Damocles, Dionysius, Elder, Gelo, Hiero, Sicilian, Sicily, Such, Sword, Syracuse, The, Younger
related to Roman tyrants · 14
Tyrant → Cicero's, Citizens, For, Josephus, Julius Caesar, Plutarch, Republic, Roman, Roman Senate, Senate, Suetonius, Tacitus, Those, Tyranny
related to External links · 9
Tyrant → BC, Die, Greece, History, Jona Lendering, Libero, Loretana, ReviewVictor Parker, Tyrannis Bryn Mawr Classical
related to Etymology · 8
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related to Greco-Roman culture · 8
Tyrant → Ancient Greek, Greek, Pelasgian, Sicilian, Thales, The, The Greek, To
related to Retaining · 8
Tyrant → Aristotle, Lengthy, Niccolò Machiavelli, Politics, The, The Prince, These, They
related to Greek political thought · 7
Tyrant → Aristotle, BC, Both, Both Plato, Polybius, The Greek, The Greeks

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Platoinstance ofA government run by a tyrant is usually called a tyranny.Ancient philosophers0.80text
Aristotle saw tyrannos as a negative form of governmentinstance ofA government run by a tyrant is usually called a tyranny.Ancient philosophers0.80text
and on account of the decisive influence of philosophy on politicsinstance ofA government run by a tyrant is usually called a tyranny.Ancient philosophers0.80text
deemed tyranny theinstance ofA government run by a tyrant is usually called a tyranny.Ancient philosophers0.80text
crimes against humanityinstance ofSamuel Rutherford's Lex Rex and Alexander Shields' A Hind Let Loose were influential works of theology written in opposition to tyranny.A modern tyrant might be defined by prove…0.80text
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Tyranthas methodWill Durant0.60section
Tyrantrelated to Archaic tyrantsOne0.60section
Tyrantrelated to Archaic tyrantsGreek0.60section
Tyrantrelated to Archaic tyrantsArchilochus0.60section
Tyrantrelated to Archaic tyrantsGyges0.60section

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