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Tyrant (2767 bytes)
1: A '''tyrant''' (from [[Greek language|Greek]] τυ...
4: ...ted Athens in [[404 BC]] by the Spartans were not tyrants in the usual sense.
6: ...[Persia]] first made inroads into Greece, as many tyrants sought Persian help against forces seeking to re...
8: ...s sanctioned by archaic traditions and mythology. Tyrants were generally installed by popular [[coup]]s, a...
10: ...with the people united behind them. Such Sicilian tyrants as Gelon, Hiero I, Hiero II, Dionysius the Elder...

Tyrant flycatcher (26521 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = pink | name = Tyrant Flycatchers}}
14: The '''tyrant flycatchers''' are a large family of [[passerine]...
79: ** [[Bronze-olive Pygmy Tyrant]], ''Pseudotriccus pelzelni''
80: ** [[Hazel-fronted Pygmy Tyrant]], ''Pseudotriccus simplex''
81: ** [[Rufous-headed Pygmy Tyrant]], ''Pseudotriccus ruficeps''

Dion (tyrant of Syracuse) (1905 bytes)
1: '''Dion''' ([[408 BC|408]]-[[354 BC]]), [[tyrant]] of [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]] in [[Sicily]], ...
3: ...lcate the maxims of his master in the mind of the tyrant. The stern morality of Dion was distasteful to th...
5: ...cure Dion's recall) only served to exasperate the tyrant, and at length provoked him to confiscate the pro...

Tyrant (computer game) (906 bytes)
1: '''Tyrant''' is a [[Roguelike]] computer game written in [[...
13: * [http://www.mikera.net/tyrant/index.html Tyrant Online RPG Game]
14: * [http://tyrant.sourceforge.net/phpwiki Tyrant Documentation]
15: * [http://tyrant.sourceforge.net/hiscores.php High Score Tables]
16: * [http://tyrant.sourceforge.net Tyrant Demo Page with latest development release]

Tyrannicide (208 bytes)
1: ...nt, and usually is taken to mean the killing of a tyrant by a private person for the common good. As Brutu...

Fei Lian (453 bytes)
3: ...Both he and his son were killed while serving the tyrant. In his human form he is known as Feng Bo.

Periander (1532 bytes)
1: ...e [[7th century BC]]. He was the son of the first tyrant, [[Cypselus]].
5: ... learned his "savagery" from [[Thrasybulus]], the tyrant of [[Miletus]], who instructed Periander to get r...

Fennin Ro (680 bytes)
1: '''Fennin Ro''' ''the Tyrant of Fire'' is a fictional deity in the [[EverQuest...
3: ...e of Fire]], from which he derives his title, the Tyrant of Fire. Fennin manifests himself as a large male...

491 BC (680 bytes)
10: * [[Gelo]] becomes Tyrant of [[Gela]]
16: * [[Hippocrates of Gela|Hippocrates]] (Tyrant of [[Gela]])

357 BC (800 bytes)
11: ...of Syracuse)|Dion]] stages a revolt and becomes [[tyrant]] of that city-state.

408 BC (786 bytes)
14: ...t of Syracuse)|Dion]], student of [[Plato]] and [[tyrant]] of [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]

354 BC (915 bytes)
16: *[[Dion (Tyrant of Syracuse)|Dion]], tyrant of Syracuse (assassinated)

397 BC (971 bytes)
11: * [[Dionysius]], [[tyrant]] of Syracuse, lays siege to [[Segesta]]
14: ...]], son of [[Dionysius of Syracuse|Dionysius]], [[tyrant]] of Syracuse

Hipparchus (son of Pisistratus) (1169 bytes)
1: ...s one of the sons of [[Pisistratus]] who became [[tyrant]] of [[Athens]] when Pisistratus died in [[527 BC...
7: ...ssination, Hippias became a more bitter and cruel tyrant, and was overthrown a few years later.

Hiero I of Syracuse (1058 bytes)
1: '''Hiero I''' was the brother of [[Gelo]], and tyrant of [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]] from [[478 BC|478...
3: ... the cause of the Locrians against [[Anaxilaus]], tyrant of [[Rhegium]].

Douris (210 bytes)
1: [[Tyrant]] of [[Samos]] and a [[descendant]] of [[Alcibiad...

Hipponax (1167 bytes)
3: ...ed from [[Ephesus]] in [[540 BC]] by the tyrant [[tyrant Athenagoras|Athenagoras]], he took refuge in [[Cl...

Aristagoras (2577 bytes)
3: ...istiaeus]], whom the [[Persia]]ns had set up as [[tyrant]] of Miletus. Aristagoras gained control of the c...
5: ... the Persians would crush it and reinstall him as tyrant. In Miletus in [[499 BC]], Aristagoras was suppor...
9: ...as eventually put down (and Histiaeus restored as tyrant), Aristagoras fled to [[Thrace]], where he attemp...
11: Another '''Aristagoras''' was the Persian tyrant of [[Cyme]] in Ionia, who was overthrown by the a...

Nabis (227 bytes)
1: '''Nabis''' was the last king of [[Sparta]]. A [[tyrant]], he ruled from [[207 B.C.]] to [[192 B.C.]] He ...

Aviatyrannis (260 bytes)
1: ... [[2003]]. The name means "Jurassic grandmother tyrant".

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