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A 9 page paper which examines the origins and history of tyrants in ancient Greece. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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control the people and to instill changes they desire. However, tyrants have not always brought about only ruin in their reign. In many cases it was tyranny that brought about
great positive change to one culture or another. This was very much the case with ancient Greece. Without the power and change brought by the tyrants of ancient Greece we
would not, to this day, see the influence and the legacy of ancient Greece. With tyranny came equality and the arts, trade and improved military strength. With these thoughts in
mind, the following paper examines tyranny in ancient Greece and then examines the various tyrants who ruled in ancient Greece. Tyranny in Ancient Greece As alluded to, "The
word tyrant (tuparros, in Greek) often makes people think of cruel, overbearing and unreasonable leaders...However, this was not always the case in Ancient Greece" (Hubert, 2005). In its historical presence,
the word tyrant was not really a word used to describe a bad or mean person, but was a word that related to a ruler that was similar in many
ways to a dictator (Hubert, 2005). In the rule of a tyrant, and a dictator, the people had absolutely no say in how the government of society was run (Hubert,
2005). In the case of a dictator this individual ruler is elected, and a tyrant is not elected. "A tyrant is a person who came into rule through independent means
of force...It was the tyrant who gave himself absolute power" (Hubert, 2005). As we can see, a tyrant is simply a person
who took charge himself and this does not indicate they were bad or good. But, then again, while not all tyrants were bad, enough of them were bad so that
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