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List of ancient Greek tyrants

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This is a list of tyrants from Ancient Greece.

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[[Abydos (Hellespont)|Abydus]]

  • Daphnis, c. 500 BC under Darius I (pro persian)Herodotus, Histories,[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hdt.%204.138&lang=original 4.138]
  • Philiscus, c. 368-360 BC (assassinated)
  • Iphiades, 360-? BCAeneas Tacticus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/H/Roman/Texts/Aeneas_Tacticus/E*.html 28.6–7],"Ἰφιάδης εἶναι Ἀβυδηνὸς κατὰ Ἑλλήσποντον καταλαμβάνων Πάριον ἄλλα τε περὶ τὴν ἀνάβασιν νυκτὸς ἐπὶ τοῦ τείχους λάθρᾳ παρεσκευάσατο​207 καὶ ἁμάξας πληρώσας φρυγάνων καὶ βάτων παρέπεμψεν πρὸς τὸ τεῖχος, ἤδη τῶν πυλῶν κεκλεισμένων, ὡς τῶν Παριανῶν οὔσας τὰς ἁμάξας, αἵτινες​208 ἐλθοῦσαι πρὸς τὰς πύλας ηὐλίζοντο, ὡς φοβούμεναι πολεμίους. 7 ἃς ἔδει ἐν καιρῷ τινι ὑφαφθῆναι, ἵνα αἱ πύλαι ἐμπρησθῶσι καὶ πρὸς τὸ σβεννύειν τῶν Παριανῶν ὁρμησάντων αὐτὸς κατὰ ἄλλον τόπον εἰσέλθῃ."[English Translation: And Iphiades of Abydus on the Hellespont, in his capture of Parium, among other preparations for scaling the wall by night, secretly prepared wagons filled with brush and brambles and sent them to the wall (the gates being already closed), as though they were wagons of the Parians, which after their arrival were parked near the gates from fear of the enemy. At a suitable moment they were to set fire to the wagons, so that the gates might catch fire, and when the citizens of Parium had gone to put out the flames he himself might enter at another point.]

[[Agrigentum]] (Acragas)

  • Phalaris, 570-554 BC (overthrown and roasted)
  • Telemachus, after 554 BC
  • Alcamenes, 6th/5th century BCHeraclides Lembus, Excerpta Politiarum, 69."Ἀκραγαντίνων: […] μεθ’ ὃν Ἀλκαμένης παρέλαβε τὰ πράγματα, καὶ μετὰ τοῦτον Ἄλκανδρος προέστη, ἀνὴρ ἐπιεικής. καὶ εὐθένησαν οὕτως ὡς περιπόρφυρα ἔχειν ἱμάτια." (Constitution of the Acragantines. […] After him [i.e. Phalaris] Alcamenes seized the power, and after him, Alcander, a righteous man, governed. And they flourished to such an extent that they had himations fringed with purple”.)

(DILTS 1971)

[[Alabanda]]

[[Ambracia]]

  • Gorgus, son of Cypselus, fl. 628-600 BC{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T1kfcobFRSMC&dq=gorgus%20tyrant%20ambracia&pg=PA80 | title=The First Democracies: Early Popular Government Outside Athens | isbn=978-3-515-06951-9 | last1=Robinson | first1=Eric W. | date=1997 | publisher=Franz Steiner Verlag }}
  • Periander, until 580 BC, son of Gorgus and grandson of Periander of Corinth{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T1kfcobFRSMC&dq=Periander%2C+ambracia&pg=PA80 | title=The First Democracies: Early Popular Government Outside Athens | isbn=978-3-515-06951-9 | last1=Robinson | first1=Eric W. | date=1997 | publisher=Franz Steiner Verlag }}
  • Archinus, 6th century BCAristotle, Constitution of Athens,[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0046%3Achapter%3D17%3Asection%3D4 17.4]

[[Amasra|Amastris]]

[[Ancient Argos|Argos]]

[[Assos]] & [[Atarneus]]

[[Astakos|Astacus]]

  • Evarchus, c. 430-420 BCThucydides in Book II of his History of the Peloponnesian War

[[Athens]]

[[Byzantium]]

[[Lysimachia (Thrace)|Cardia]]

  • Hecataeus, fl. 323 BC [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DH%3Aentry+group%3D4 Hecataetus entry]

[[Kamarina, Sicily|Camarina]]

[[Cassandreia]]

[[Catania|Catane]]

  • Euarchus, 729 BC-?, founder of Catane{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NhmYR8uNs40C&dq=%22euarchus%22+%22catana%22&pg=PA115 | title=The hystory | author1=Thucydides | date=1843 }}
  • Deinomenes the Younger, fl. 470-465 BC
  • Mamercus of Catane, 345-338 BC

[[Chalcis]] (Euboea)

  • Tynnondas, c. 580 BCPlutarch, Solon,[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg007.perseus-eng1:14.4 14.4]
  • Antileon, 6th century BC
  • Mnesarchus, before 354 BC
  • Callias, c. 354-350 BC, c. 343-330 BC
  • Taurosthenes, c. 330 BC

[[Thracian Chersonese|Chersonese]]

[[Chios]]

[[Kibyra|Cibyra]]

  • Moagetes, fl. 190 BC Strabo,[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0198:book=13:chapter=4&highlight=cibyra%2Cmurena 13.4]

[[Corfu|Corcyra]]

[[Corinth]]

[[Kos|Cos]]

  • Scythes, late 6th century BC
  • Cadmus, resigned 494 BC{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XWEFAAAAQAAJ&q=cadmus+scythes&pg=PA525 | title=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: Abaeus-Dysponteus | last1=Smith | first1=William | date=1844 }}
  • Nicias of Cos, 1st century BC
  • Nicippus, 1st century (with Nicias){{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DO8QWaU4GegC&dq=%22nicippus%22%20%22cos%22&pg=PA104 | title=Bell's New Pantheon; or, Historical Dictionary of the Gods, Demi-gods, Heroes, and Fabulous Personages of Antiquity: Also, of the Images and Idols Adored in the Pagan World; Together with Their Temples, Priests, Altars, Oracles, Fasts, Festivals, Games, &c. As Well as Descriptions of Their Figures, Representations, and Symbols, Collected from Statues Pictures, Coins and Other Remains of the Ancients. The Whole Designed to Facilitate the Study of Mythology, History, Poetry, Painting, Statuary, Medals, &c. &c. And Compiled from the Best Authorities | last1=Bell | first1=John | date=1790 }}

[[Crotone|Croton]]

  • Cleinias, c. 504-495 BC{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HX4OAAAAQAAJ&dq=cleinias+croton&pg=PA459 | title=The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race | last1=Müller | first1=Karl Otfried | date=1839 }}
  • Menedemus, until 295 BC (conquered and {{KIA}}){{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bi8LAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22menedemus%22+%22croton%22&pg=PA635 | title=The Cambridge Ancient History | date=1928 | publisher=University Press | isbn=978-0-521-23347-7 }}

[[Cumae]]

[[Cyme (Aeolis)|Cyme]]

[[Cyprus]]

[[Cyrene, Libya|Cyrene]]

  • Ophellas, 312-308 BC
  • Lycopus, c. 163 BC{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P5bQjkr7TvgC&dq=lycopus+cyrene&pg=PA293 | title=The Journal of Sacred Literature | last1=Kitto | first1=John | date=1853 }}
  • Nicocrates, c. 51 BC (assassinated)
  • Leander, c. 50 BC (arrested)

[[Cyzicus]]

[[Dardanus (city)|Dardanos]]

  • Mania, killed by her son-in-law c. 399 BC

[[Elatea]]

[[Velia|Elea]]

[[Ancient Elis|Elis]]

[[Ephesus]]

  • Melas the Elder, 7th century BC, brother-in-law to king Gyges{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XqcyAQAAMAAJ&dq=melas+tyrant+ephesus&pg=PA273 | title=The Origin of Tyranny | last1=Ure | first1=Percy Neville | date=1922 }}
  • Pythagoras, son of Miletus, 6th century BC{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XqcyAQAAMAAJ&dq=pythagoras+tyrant+ephesus&pg=PA272 | title=The Origin of Tyranny | last1=Ure | first1=Percy Neville | date=1922 }}
  • Melas the Younger, son of Pythagoras, son-in-law of king Alyattes
  • Pindarus, son of Melas, around 560 BC, overthrown by his cousin king Croesus{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AvpKAQAAMAAJ&dq=pasicles+tyrant+ephesus&pg=PA610 | title=History of the Ancient Peoples of the Classic East | last1=Maspero | first1=Gaston | date=1900 }}
  • Aristarchus, sent from Athens, around 545-540, to rule instead of Melas III{{Cite web |title=Great Online Encyclopaedia of Constantinople |url=http://constantinople.ehw.gr/forms/fLemmaBodyExtended.aspx?lemmaID=8197 |access-date=2024-09-26 |website=constantinople.ehw.gr}}
  • Pasicles, 540-530 BC, killed when returning from a feast.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a5YdwJJatoAC&dq=pasicles+tyrant+ephesus&pg=PA772 | title=Αίτια | isbn=978-0-19-958101-6 | author1=Callimachus | date=2012 | publisher=Oxford University Press }}
  • Aphinagorus, fl. 530 BC
  • Comas, fl. 530 BC
  • Athenagoras, late 6th century BC
  • Phanes
  • Melancomas, around 500 BC
  • Hegesias, before 323 BC (assassinated)
  • Melancomas II, fl. 214 BC{{Cite book |last=Laale |first=Hans Willer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YPC1HhQUoksC&dq=melancomas+ephesus&pg=PA131 |title=Ephesus (Ephesos): An Abbreviated History from Androclus to Constantine Xi |date=2011-11-04 |publisher=WestBow Press |isbn=978-1-4497-1618-9 |language=en}}

[[Epidaurus]]

[[Eretria]]

[[Gela]]

[[Halicarnassus]]

[[Heraclea Pontica]]

[[Ermioni|Hermione]]

  • Xenon, stepped down 229 BC

[[Himera]]

[[Keryneia, Greece|Keryneia]]

  • Iseas, 275 BC (resigned)

[[Lampsacus]]

  • Hippoclus, c. 513 BC
  • Aeantides, fl. 515-510 BC
  • Astyanax, before 360 BC, assassinated{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EDsbIX_TTvsC&dq=%22astyanax%22+lampascus&pg=PA173 | title=Aeneas Tacticus, Asdepiodotus, and Onasander; with English translation by members of the Illinois Greek club | date=1923 }}

[[Larissa]]

[[Lentini|Leontini]]

  • Panaetius, c. 615/609 BC{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EKQRAQAAMAAJ&dq=panaetius+leontini&pg=PA427 | title=A History of Greece | last1=Abbott | first1=Evelyn | date=1892 }}{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R6c_AAAAYAAJ&dq=panaetius+leontini&pg=PA108 | title=A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: Oarses-Zygia | last1=Smith | first1=William | date=1876 }}
  • Aenesidemus, 498-491 BC
  • Hicetas, c. 347-338 BC
  • Heracleides, fl. 278 BC

[[Lindos]]

[[Locri]]

[[Megalopolis, Greece|Megalopolis]]

[[Megara]]

[[Messana]]

  • Scythes, c. 494 BC
  • Cadmus, c. 494-490 BC{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0DIGAAAAQAAJ&dq=dictionary%20of%20greek%20and%20roman%20biography%20and%20mythology%20scythes&pg=PA525 | title=A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: Abaeus-Dysponteus | last1=Smith | first1=William | date=1880 }}
  • Anaxilas, c. 490-476 BC
  • Micythus, c. 476-467 BC (retired)
  • Leophron, c. 467-461 BC (popular revolt)
  • Hippon, c. 338 BC{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VzMGAAAAQAAJ&dq=hippon+messana&pg=PA493 | title=A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: Earinus-Nyx | last1=Smith | first1=William | date=1880 }}
  • Cios the Mamertine, c. 269 BC {{POW}}{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hDAOAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22Cios%22%20the%20%22Mamertine%22&pg=PA191 | title=The history of Titus Livius, with the entire supplement of J. Freinsheim; tr. Into Engl | last1=Livius | first1=Titus | date=1815 }}

[[Messene]]

  • Phyliades, before 336 BC (?){{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DPRCAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22neon%22+messene&pg=PA213 | title=The Histories | author1=Polybius | date=1889 }}
  • Neon, son of Phyliades (expelled in 336 after Philip II died, but restored by Alexander) after 336 BC (?)
  • Thrasymachus, son of Phyliades (expelled in 336 after Philip II died, but restored by Alexander) after 336 BC (?)

[[Mithymna|Methymnae]]

[[Miletus]]

  • Amphitres, late 8th or 7th century BC{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-3wOAAAAQAAJ&dq=Amphitres+miletus&pg=PA187 | title=History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Persian War | last1=Duncker | first1=Max | date=1886 }}
  • Thrasybulus, 7th century BC
  • Thoas, 6th century BC
  • Damasanor, 6th century BC
  • Histiaeus, 518-514 BC
  • Aristagoras, c. 513-499 BC (reintroduced democracy)
  • Timarchus, 3rd century BC

[[Mytilene]]

  • Myrsilus, late 7th century BC, (Alcaeus was against him){{Cite web |title=Alcaeus {{!}} Ancient Greek Lyric Poet & Politician {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alcaeus#ref984813 |access-date=2025-04-02 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
  • Pittacus, fl. 600 BC (resigned after ten years)
  • Coes, c. 507-499 BC (stoned)

[[Naxos Island|Naxos]]

[[Orchomenus (Arcadia)|Orchomenus]]

  • Aristomelidas, Archaic period (?){{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y0ENEQAAQBAJ&dq=Aristomelidas%20tyrant&pg=PT97 | title=The Tyrants of Corinth: Legends of Cypselus and Periander | isbn=978-1-040-08814-2 | last1=Ogden | first1=Daniel | date=29 July 2024 | publisher=Taylor & Francis }}
  • Nearchus, 234 BC (resigned)

[[Oreus]]

  • Philistides, c. 341 BC (expelled)
  • Menippus, c. 341 BC (expelled){{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VzMGAAAAQAAJ&dq=menippus+tyrant+oreus&pg=PA1041 | title=A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: Earinus-Nyx | last1=Smith | first1=William | date=1880 }}

[[Parium]]

  • Herophantus, c. 513 BC{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NXRkwy-iRX0C&dq=herophantus+%22tyrant%22+parium&pg=PA36 | title=The History of Herodotus, Translated from the Greek. With Notes. By ... W. Beloe | author1=Herodotus | date=1812 }}

[[Pellene]]

[[Farsala|Pharsalus]]

  • Sisyphus, fl. 395 BC{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UGcMAAAAIAAJ&dq=sisyphus+pharsalus+tyrant&pg=RA4-PA397 | title=The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned | date=1909 }}
  • Polydamas, until 370 BC

[[Pherae]]

  • Lycophron{{Citation |last1=Westlake |first1=Henry Dickinson |title=Lycophron (1), tyrant of Pherae, c. 406–390 BCE |date=2016-03-07 |encyclopedia=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics |url=https://oxfordre.com/classics/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-3814 |access-date=2025-04-01 |language=en |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.3814 |isbn=978-0-19-938113-5 |last2=Hornblower |first2=Simon|url-access=subscription }}
  • Jason, before 370 BC (assassinated)
  • Polydorus, 370 BC (assassinated)
  • Polyphron, 370-369 BC (assassinated)
  • Alexander, 369-358 BC (assassinated)
  • Tisiphonus, 357-355/4 BC
  • Lycophron II, 355-352 BC (resigned)
  • Peitholaus, 355-352 and 349 BC (resigned, expelled){{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HecxRNVtC94C&dq=peitholaus%20tyrant%20pherae&pg=PA199 | title=On the Peace, Second Philippic: On the Chersonesus, and the Third Philippic | author1=Demosthenes | date=1900 }}

[[Phlius]]

  • Leo, c. 540 BC
  • Cleonymus, before 229 BC (resigned){{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_pZEpbG498C&dq=Cleonymus%2C%20phlius&pg=PA111 | title=The Histories | isbn=978-0-19-953470-8 | author1=Polybius | date=11 November 2010 | publisher=Oxford University Press }}

[[Phocaea]]

  • Laodamas, c. 513 BC{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bAPk18UKx_MC&dq=laodamas+tyrant&pg=PA102 | title=Ritualised Friendship and the Greek City | isbn=978-0-521-52210-6 | last1=Herman | first1=Gabriel | date=8 August 2002 | publisher=Cambridge University Press }}

[[Phocis (ancient region)|Phocis]]

  • Aulis, fl. c. 520 BC{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6G5vEAAAQBAJ&dq=aulius+tyrant+phocis&pg=PA46 | title=Greek Tyranny | isbn=978-1-80207-933-3 | last1=Lewis | first1=Sian | date=April 2022 | publisher=Liverpool University Press }}
  • Phayllus, fl. 352 BC{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xVU-AAAAcAAJ&dq=phayllus+tyrant+phocis&pg=PA965 | title=The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned of Athenaeus: With an Appendix of Poetical Fragments, Rendered into English Verse by Various Authors and a General Index : In Three Volumes | author1=Athenaeus | date=1854 }}

[[Pisa, Greece|Pisa]]

  • Damophon, before 7th century BC (?){{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Sc9EAAAQBAJ&dq=damophon+tyrant+of+pisa&pg=PT223 | title=Ancient Greek Athletics: Primary Sources in Translation | isbn=978-0-19-260762-1 | last1=Stocking | first1=Charles H. | last2=Stephens | first2=Susan A. | date=25 August 2021 | publisher=Oxford University Press }}
  • Pantaleon, fl. 660-644 BC{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HX4OAAAAQAAJ&dq=pantaleon+tyrant+of+pisa&pg=PA455 | title=The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race | last1=Müller | first1=Karl Otfried | date=1839 }}
  • Damophon, fl. 588 BC{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N1-2KP-Ox8AC&dq=damophon%20tyrant%20pisa%20588&pg=PA214 | title=The Sicilian Colony Dates | isbn=978-1-4384-1318-1 | last1=Miller | first1=Molly | date=30 June 1970 | publisher=State University of New York Press }}
  • Pyrrhus, 6th century BC{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yIADAAAAQAAJ&dq=pyrrhus+tyrant+of+pisa&pg=PA68 | title=A Skeleton Outline of Greek History, Chronologically Arranged | last1=Abbott | first1=Evelyn | date=1884 }}

[[Priene]]

  • Hieron of Priene, 300-297 BC{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qmYEKxjV5bIC&dq=hieron+priene+tyrant&pg=PA49 | title=Hellenistic Fortifications from the Aegean to the Euphrates | isbn=978-0-19-813228-8 | last1=McNicoll | first1=Anthony | date=1997 | publisher=Clarendon Press }}

[[Marmara Island|Proconnesus]]

  • Metrodorus, c. 513 BC{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xCMNAAAAYAAJ&dq=metrodorus+tyrant&pg=PA284 | title=Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr ; with a Geographical and General Index | author1=Herodotus | last2=Cary | first2=Henry | date=1848 }}

[[Rhegium]]

[[Samos Island|Samos]]

  • Demoteles, 7th century BCPlutarch, Greek Questions 57
  • Syloson, c. 538 BC
  • Polycrates, c. 538-522 BC
  • Maiandrius, c. 522 BC (reintroduced democracy)
  • Charilaus, c. 522 BC
  • Syloson, again c. 521 BC
  • Aeaces, around 513 BC, reinstalled after 494 BC
  • Theomestor, after 480 BCHerodotus 8.85, Herodotus,9.90
  • Kaois (father of Duris), after 322 BC{{cite journal |last1=Barron|first1=John |title=The Tyranny of Duris of Samos|journal= The Classical Review |date= 1962|volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=189–92 |doi=10.1017/S0009840X00214005 |jstor=709356|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/709356|url-access=subscription}}
  • Duris, c. 300-280 BC

[[Selinunte|Selinus]]

  • Theron, 6th/5th century BC{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7J1WEQAAQBAJ&dq=theron%20selinus&pg=PA720 | title=The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World: Volume VI: Rhodes to Western Sicily | isbn=978-0-19-938353-5 | last1=Osborne | first1=Robin | date=30 May 2025 | publisher=Oxford University Press }}
  • Pythagoras, 6th/5th century BC{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LDbaEAAAQBAJ&dq=pythagoras%20selinus&pg=PA323 | title=Heredotus | isbn=978-3-368-19622-6 | last1=Cary | first1=Henry | date=29 September 2023 | publisher=BoD – Books on Demand }}
  • Euryleon of Sparta, 6th/5th century BC (killed){{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LDbaEAAAQBAJ&dq=pythagoras%20selinus&pg=PA323 | title=Heredotus | isbn=978-3-368-19622-6 | last1=Cary | first1=Henry | date=29 September 2023 | publisher=BoD – Books on Demand }}

[[Sicyon]]

  • Orthagoras, from 676 BC
  • Myron the Elder, fl. 648 BC, former Olympian winning in chariot racePausanias,[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D6%3Achapter%3D19%3Asection%3D1 6.19.1]
  • Aristonymus, father of Cleisthenes{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n7RWAAAAYAAJ&dq=Aristonymus%2C+father+of+Cleisthenes&pg=RA3-PA54 | title=Ancient History pamphlets | date=1915 }}
  • IsodemusFrontinus’ “Strategemata”.
  • Cleisthenes, 600-560 BC
  • Aeschines, 560-556 BC removed by the Spartans{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NjeM0kcp8swC&dq=Aeschines%2C+sicyon&pg=PA123 | title=The Ancient Greeks: A Critical History | isbn=978-0-674-03314-6 | last1=Fine | first1=John Van Antwerp | date=1983 | publisher=Harvard University Press }}
  • Euphron, 368-366 BC (assassinated)
  • Aristratus, fl. c. 340 BC
  • Epichares (?), fl. c. 330 BC
  • Cratesipolis, 314-308 BC (bribed)
  • Cleon, c. 300-280 BC (assassinated)
  • Euthydemus, c. 280-270 BC (expelled)
  • Timocleidas, c. 280-270 BC (expelled)
  • Abantidas, 264-252 BC (assassinated)
  • Paseas, 252-251 BC (assassinated)
  • Nicocles, 251 BC (expelled by Aratus of Sicyon)

[[Sigeion|Sigeum]]

  • Hegesistratus, fl. 510 BCHerodotus,[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hdt.%205.94&lang=original 5.94]

[[Sinop, Turkey|Sinope]]

[[Sparta]]

[[Sybaris]]

[[Syracuse, Italy|Syracuse]]

[[History of Taranto|Tarentum]]

  • Aristophylidas, c. 516-492 BCHerodotus,[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126%3Abook%3D3%3Achapter%3D136%3Asection%3D2 3.136.2]

[[Tarsus, Mersin|Tarsus]]

[[Taormina|Tauromenium]]

[[Thasos]]

  • Symmachus, c. 520 BCPolyaenus: Stratagems, Book 2,1.27

[[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]]

  • Leontiades, 382-379 BC (killed)
  • Archias, 382-379 BC (killed)Plutarch, Pelopidas, 5.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i_COVntzFjoC&dq=archias+thebes&pg=PA203 | title=The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika | isbn=978-1-4000-3476-5 | last1=Strassler | first1=Robert B. | date=7 December 2010 | publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing }}

[[Zeleia]]

  • Nicagoras, 334 BC (conquered by Alexander the Great)[http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/erudits/athenee/livre7gr.htm#288a Athenaeus, Deipnosophists, §7.288]

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