Ancient Greek tyrants

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Miltiades (; ; c. 550 – 489 BC), also known as Miltiades the Younger, was a Greek Athenian statesman known mostly for his role in the Battle of Marathon, as well as for his downfall afterwards. He was the son of Cimon Coalemos, a renowned Olympic chariot-racer, and the father of Cimon, the noted Athenian statesman.

tyrant of Athens from c. 528 BC to 514 BC

4th-century BC Greek historian and tyrant of Samos

Spartan general

Machanidas () was a tyrant of Lacedaemon near the end of the 3rd century BC. He was defeated and slain by Philopoemen.

Tyrant of Cumae, Magna Graecia (c.550–c.490 BC)

4th-century BC tyrant of Heraclea Pontica

Abantidas (in Greek Ἀβαντίδας) (died 252 BC), the son of Paseas, became tyrant of the ancient Greek city-state of Sicyon in 264 BC after murdering Cleinias, the father of Aratus. After the assassination, Abantidas had the remaining friends and relations of Cleinias banished or put to death.

Greek ruler of Heraclea (c. 401–353 BC)

Aristion (Greek: Άριστίων; died 1 March 86 BC in Athens) was a philosopher who became tyrant of Athens from 88 BC until he was executed in 86 BC. Aristion joined forces with King Mithridates VI of Pontus against Greece's overlords, the Romans, fighting alongside Pontic forces during the First Mithridatic War, but to no avail. On 1 March 86 BC, after a long and destructive siege, Athens was taken by the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla, who had Aristion executed.

Greek tyrant of Sicyon (ruled 251 BC)

4th-century BC wrestler and tyrant of Pellene

ancient Greek general

Paseas (Πασέας) was a tyrant of the ancient Greek city-state of Sicyon in the 3rd century BC. He succeeded his son, Abantidas, in 252 BC. However, he was assassinated by Nicocles in 251 BC.

Timophanes was an Ancient Corinthian and brother of the renowned Greek statesman and general Timoleon.

tyrant of Megalopolis, strategos of the Achaean League

3rd-century BC tyrant of Megalopolis

tyrant of the ancient Greek city of Cassandreia (formerly Potidaea) in the peninsula of Pallene

tyrant of Heraclea (died 338 BC)

3rd-century BC tyrant of the Greek city of Miletus

tyrant of Argos

4th-century BC tyrant of Eretria

Leontiades of Thebes, son of Eurymachus, and apparently a grandson of the Theban commander Leontiades in the Battle of Thermopylae.

tyrant of Heraclea (died 284 BC)

4th-century BC tyrant of Eretria

Aeinautae (, , from and ) were magistrates at Miletus around 600 BC, consisting of the chief men in the state, who obtained the supreme power on the deposition of the tyrants, Thoas and Damasenor. Whenever they wished to deliberate on important matters, they embarked on board ship (hence their name), put out at a distance from land, and did not return to shore until they had transacted their business.