List of ancient Greek tyrants

This is a list of tyrants from Ancient Greece.

Agrigentum (Acragas)

• Phalaris, 570 BC-554 BC
• Theron, 488 BC-472 BC

Atarneus

• Hermias of Atarneus

Athens

• Pisistratus, 561 BC, 559 BC-556 BC and 546 BC-528 BC.
• Hipparchus (527 BC-514 BC) and Hippias (527 BC-510 BC), sons of Pisistratus; Hipparchus was murdered by Harmodius and Aristogeiton, the original tyrannicides.
• Theramenes, Critias, and Charicles leading members of the Thirty Tyrants following Athens' defeat in the Peloponnesian War

Argos

• Pheidon, around 650BC

Byzantium

• Clearchus of Sparta, 5th century BC

Corinth

• Cypselus (or Kypselos), 7th century BC
• Periander, son of Cypselus
• Psammetichus, Periander's nephew, who succeeded him but his rule only lasted for three years

Cyprus

• Nicocreon

Ephesus

• Athenagoras, 6th century BC
• Pythagoras, 6th century BC
• Pindarus, around 560 BC
• Pasicles

Gela

• Cleandrus, 505 BC-498 BC
• Hippocrates, 498 BC-491 BC
• Gelon, 491 BC-485 BC
• Hieron I, 485 BC-466 BC
• Polyzalus?

Heraclea Pontica

• Clearchus
• Timotheus
• Dionysius
• Oxyathres

Halicarnassus

• Artemisia, 5th century BC

Katane

• Euarchus, 729 BC-?
• Deinomenes, 470 BC-465 BC
• Mamercus, 335 BC-338 BC

Megara

• Theagenes, 7th century BC

Miletus

• Amphitres, late 8th or 7th century BC
• Thrasybulus, 7th century BC
• Histiaeus, 6th century BC
• Aristagoras, 6th century BC
• Thoas, 6th century BC
• Damasanor, 6th century BC
• Timarchus, 3rd century BC

Mytilene

• Melandrus, late 7th century BC
• Myrsilus, late 7th century BC, (Alcaeus was against him)
• Coes, 5th century BC

Naxos

• Lygdamis, 6th century BC

Pellene

• Chaeron

Pherae

• Jason, assassinated 370 BC
• Alexander, son of Jason, 369 BC-358 BC

Rhegium

• Anaxilas 494 BC-474 BC

Samos

• Demoteles, 7th century BC
• Syloson, early 6th century BC
• Polycrates, 535 BC-515 BC
• Douris, 4th century BC

Sicyon

• Orthagoras, 676BC
• Myron I
• Aristonymus
• Myron II and Isodemus, around 600 BC
• Cleisthenes, 600 - 560 BC
• Aeschines, around 510 BC
• Cleon
• Tidas

Syracuse

• Gelon, 491 BC-478 BC
• Hieron I, 478 BC-466 BC
• Thrasybulus, 466 BC-465 BC
• Dionysius the Elder, 405 BC-367 BC
• Dionysius the Younger, 367 BC-356 BC and 347 BC-344 BC
• Dion, 356 BC-347 BC
• Nysaeos, 350 BC-346 BC
• Timoleon, 345 BC-337 BC
• Agathocles, 317 BC-289 BC
• Icetas, 289 BC-280 BC
• Toinon, 280 BC
• Sosistratus, 280 BC-277 BC
• Hiero II, 275 BC-215 BC
• Gelon II, 240 BC-216 BC
• Hieronymus, 215 BC-214 BC
• Adranodoros, 214 BC-212 BC
• Hippocrates, 213 BC-212 BC
• Epicydes, 213 BC-212 BC
• Acestorides ?
• Apollocrates ?
• Heracleides ?