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In modern usage a
tyrant is a single ruler holding vast, if not absolute political power through a
state or in an organization. The term carries connotations of a harsh and cruel ruler who places his/her own interests or the interests of a small oligarchy over the best interests of the general population which they govern or control. This mode of rule is referred to as
tyranny. Many individual rulers or government officials are accused of tyranny, with the label almost always a matter of controversy.
The word derives from Latin
tyrannus, and from Greek language τύραννος
tyrannos, meaning "illegitimate ruler". There may be a connection with the
Biblical Hebrew language word
seren, which means "captain of the Philistines": see
Philistines#Philistine language.
Historical forms
In ancient Greece, tyrants were influential opportunists that came to power by securing the support of different factions of a
deme. The word "tyrant" then carried no ethical censure; it simply referred to anyone who illegally seized executive power in a polis to engage in
autocratic, though perhaps benevolent, government, or leadership in a crisis. Support for the tyrants came from the growing class of business people and from the peasants who had no land or were in debt to the wealthy land owners. It is true that they had no legal right to rule, but the people preferred them over kings or the aristocrats. The Greek tyrants stayed in power by using mercenary soldiers from outside of their respective city state. "Tyrant",
ABC-CLIO, retrieved 16 February 2007
Cypselus, the first tyrant of
Corinth in the 7th century BC, managed to bequeath his position to his son, Periander. Tyrants seldom succeeded in establishing an untroubled line of succession. In Athens, the inhabitants first gave the title to
Peisistratos (Athens) of
Athens in 560 BC, followed by his sons, and with the subsequent growth of Athenian democracy, the title "tyrant" took on its familiar negative connotations. The
Thirty Tyrants whom the Spartans imposed on a defeated Attica in 404 BC would not class as tyrants in the usual sense. The murder of the tyrant
Hipparchus (tyrant) by Harmodius and Aristogeiton in Athens in 514 BC marked the beginning of the so-called "cult of the tyrannicides" (i.e. of killers of tyrants). Contempt for tyranny characterised this cult movement. The attitude became especially prevalent in Athens after 508 BC, when Cleisthenes reformed the political system so that it resembled
demokratia (ancient participant democracy as opposed to the modern representative democracy).
Aisymnetes
An aisymnetes (pl. aisymnetai) was a type of tyrant or dictator, such as
Pittacus (c. 640 -568 BC), elected for life or a specified period by a city-state in a time of crisis. Magistrates in some city-states were also called aisymnetai. "Ancient Greece: government (tyranny)", Facts On File, retrieved 16 February 2007
Hellenic Tyrants
The heyday of the classical Hellenic tyrants came in the early 6th century BC, when Cleisthenes of Sicyon ruled
Sicyon in the Peloponnesus, and
Polycrates ruled
Samos Island. During this time, revolts overthrew many governments in the
Aeean Sea world. Simultaneously Persian Empire first started making inroads into Greece, and many tyrants sought Persian help against forces seeking to remove them.
Popularism
Greek tyranny in the main grew out of the struggle of the popular classes against the
aristocracy or against priest-kings where archaic traditions and mythology sanctioned hereditary and/or traditional rights to rule. Popular
coups generally installed tyrants, who often became or remained popular rulers, at least in the early part of their reigns. For instance, the popular imagination remembered
Peisistratos (Athens) for an episode (related by
Aristotle, but possibly fictional) in which he exempted a farmer from taxation because of the particular barrenness of his plot. Pisistratus' sons Hippias (son of Peisistratus) and
Hipparchus (son of Pisistratus), on the other hand, were not such able rulers and when the disaffected aristocrats Harmodios and Aristogeiton slew Hipparchus, Hippias' rule quickly became oppressive, resulting in the expulsion of the Peisistratids in 510.
Sicilian Tyrants
The tyrannies of Sicily came about due to similar causes, but here the threat of Carthaginian attack prolonged tyranny, facilitating the rise of military leaders with the people united behind them. Such Sicilian tyrants as Gelo, Hiero I, Hiero II,
Dionysius the Elder, and
Dionysius the Younger maintained lavish courts and became patrons of culture.
Roman Tyrants
Roman historians like Suetonius, Tacitus, Plutarch and Josephus often spoke of "tyranny" in opposition to "liberty". Tyranny was associated with imperial rule and those rulers who usurped too much authority from the Roman Senate. Those who were advocates of "liberty" tended to be pro-Republic and pro-Senate. For instance, regarding
Julius Caesar and his assassins, Suetonius wrote:
Therefore the plots which had previously been formed separately, often by groups of two or three, were united in a general conspiracy, since even the populace no longer were pleased with present conditions, but both secretly and openly rebelled at his tyranny and cried out for defenders of their liberty.Suetonius,
The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Julius Caesar 80>>
In the Arts
Ancient Greece, as well as the Roman Republicans, became generally quite wary of anyone seeking to implement a popular coup.
Shakespeare portrays the struggle of one such anti-tyrannical Roman, Marcus Junius Brutus, in his play
Julius Caesar (play).
References
See also
External links
- Livius, Tyrant by Jona Lendering
In modern usage a
tyrant is a single ruler holding vast, if not absolute
political power through a
state or in an
organization. The term carries connotations of a harsh and cruel ruler who places his/her own interests or the interests of a small oligarchy over the best interests of the general population which they govern or control. This mode of rule is referred to as
tyranny. Many individual rulers or government officials are accused of tyranny, with the label almost always a matter of controversy.
The word derives from
Latin tyrannus, and from Greek language τύραννος
tyrannos, meaning "illegitimate ruler". There may be a connection with the
Biblical Hebrew language word
seren, which means "captain of the
Philistines": see Philistines#Philistine language.
Historical forms
In
ancient Greece, tyrants were influential opportunists that came to power by securing the support of different factions of a deme. The word "tyrant" then carried no ethical censure; it simply referred to anyone who illegally seized executive power in a
polis to engage in autocratic, though perhaps benevolent, government, or leadership in a crisis. Support for the tyrants came from the growing class of business people and from the peasants who had no land or were in debt to the wealthy land owners. It is true that they had no legal right to rule, but the people preferred them over kings or the aristocrats. The Greek tyrants stayed in power by using mercenary soldiers from outside of their respective city state. "Tyrant", ABC-CLIO, retrieved 16 February 2007
Cypselus, the first tyrant of
Corinth in the
7th century BC, managed to bequeath his position to his son,
Periander. Tyrants seldom succeeded in establishing an untroubled line of succession. In
Athens, the inhabitants first gave the title to
Peisistratos (Athens) of
Athens in 560 BC, followed by his sons, and with the subsequent growth of Athenian democracy, the title "tyrant" took on its familiar negative connotations. The
Thirty Tyrants whom the Spartans imposed on a defeated Attica in
404 BC would not class as tyrants in the usual sense. The murder of the tyrant
Hipparchus (tyrant) by
Harmodius and Aristogeiton in Athens in 514 BC marked the beginning of the so-called "cult of the tyrannicides" (i.e. of killers of tyrants). Contempt for tyranny characterised this cult movement. The attitude became especially prevalent in Athens after 508 BC, when
Cleisthenes reformed the political system so that it resembled
demokratia (ancient participant democracy as opposed to the modern representative democracy).
Aisymnetes
An aisymnetes (pl. aisymnetai) was a type of tyrant or dictator, such as
Pittacus (c. 640 -568 BC), elected for life or a specified period by a city-state in a time of crisis. Magistrates in some city-states were also called aisymnetai. "Ancient Greece: government (tyranny)", Facts On File, retrieved 16 February 2007
Hellenic Tyrants
The heyday of the classical Hellenic tyrants came in the early
6th century BC, when
Cleisthenes of Sicyon ruled
Sicyon in the Peloponnesus, and Polycrates ruled
Samos Island. During this time, revolts overthrew many governments in the Aeean Sea world. Simultaneously Persian Empire first started making inroads into Greece, and many tyrants sought Persian help against forces seeking to remove them.
Popularism
Greek tyranny in the main grew out of the struggle of the popular classes against the aristocracy or against priest-kings where archaic traditions and mythology sanctioned hereditary and/or traditional rights to rule. Popular coups generally installed tyrants, who often became or remained popular rulers, at least in the early part of their reigns. For instance, the popular imagination remembered Peisistratos (Athens) for an episode (related by
Aristotle, but possibly fictional) in which he exempted a farmer from taxation because of the particular barrenness of his plot. Pisistratus' sons
Hippias (son of Peisistratus) and
Hipparchus (son of Pisistratus), on the other hand, were not such able rulers and when the disaffected aristocrats Harmodios and Aristogeiton slew Hipparchus, Hippias' rule quickly became oppressive, resulting in the expulsion of the Peisistratids in
510.
Sicilian Tyrants
The tyrannies of Sicily came about due to similar causes, but here the threat of Carthaginian attack prolonged tyranny, facilitating the rise of military leaders with the people united behind them. Such Sicilian tyrants as Gelo, Hiero I,
Hiero II,
Dionysius the Elder, and Dionysius the Younger maintained lavish courts and became patrons of culture.
Roman Tyrants
Roman historians like
Suetonius,
Tacitus, Plutarch and Josephus often spoke of "tyranny" in opposition to "liberty". Tyranny was associated with imperial rule and those rulers who usurped too much authority from the Roman Senate. Those who were advocates of "liberty" tended to be pro-Republic and pro-Senate. For instance, regarding Julius Caesar and his assassins, Suetonius wrote:
Therefore the plots which had previously been formed separately, often by groups of two or three, were united in a general conspiracy, since even the populace no longer were pleased with present conditions, but both secretly and openly rebelled at his tyranny and cried out for defenders of their liberty.Suetonius,
The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Julius Caesar 80>>
In the Arts
Ancient Greece, as well as the Roman Republicans, became generally quite wary of anyone seeking to implement a popular coup.
Shakespeare portrays the struggle of one such anti-tyrannical Roman,
Marcus Junius Brutus, in his play
Julius Caesar (play).
References
See also
External links
- Livius, Tyrant by Jona Lendering
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