OCR GCSE Ancient History · J198
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A ruler who held sole power in a Greek city rather than governing through its established constitutional arrangements. The ancient term does not necessarily mean a cruel ruler.
Revise: The Ionian Revolt and Relations with AthensIn 507 BC, the new democratic Athens sought Persian help against Sparta, which wanted to restore Hippias, Athens’ former tyrant. Athenian envoys approached Artaphernes, the Persian satrap at Sardis, and agreed to offer earth and water. These were tokens of submission: what Athens sought as help therefore involved accepting Persian authority.
- Revise: Persian Invasions of Greece: 493–490 BC
- Revise: The Spartan Invasion and the Fall of Hippias
In ancient Greece, a ruler who gained power unconstitutionally; the term does not by itself establish whether that ruler governed cruelly.
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- Revise: Polycrates' Rise to Power and Public Works
A ruler who held personal power outside the normal constitutional arrangements of a Greek city-state; the ancient term did not necessarily mean a cruel ruler.
- Revise: Plutarch and Cornelius Nepos: Biographical Sources
In ancient Greek politics, a ruler exercising personal power outside the normal constitutional arrangements; the term does not necessarily imply cruelty.
- Revise: Archaeological Sources
In ancient Greece, a ruler who gained power unconstitutionally; the term does not automatically mean that the ruler governed cruelly.
- Revise: Rhetoric, the Sophists and the Practice of Ostracism
A ruler who held power outside the established constitutional arrangements, rather than through ordinary democratic authority.