Tyrant

Even in later traditions some of the early tyrants were still so positively seen that the tyrant of Lindos Cleobulus and Periander of Corinth even the "seven wise men" were counted.

Overall, the following applies: The negative change of meaning of the term tyrant should it be related to the parallel development of the term Basileus: During this became the name of a legitimate monarch, Bane took more and more the importance of " tyrants " to.

Also usurpers in the sources were then often called a " tyrant " means (see also Thirty Tyrants in the Historia Augusta) at the latest in Late Antiquity. The use and meaning of the term tyrant thus evolved over time more and more in the direction of arbitrary despot; " Tyranny " has become synonymous with despotism, which is then the turn gave someone bully.