Sculptures showing Harmodios and Aristogeiton, murderers of the sons of the Greek tyrant Pisistrates – Hipparchus and Hippias. The sculptures are a Roman copy from the 2nd century CE. [1200×1600]
Sculptures showing Harmodios and Aristogeiton, murderers of the sons of the Greek tyrant Pisistrates – Hipparchus and Hippias. The sculptures are a Roman copy from the 2nd century CE. [1200×1600]
Since a lot of people don’t know, the word tyrant didn’t have any kind of negative connotation back then. I tyrant was someone who was given absolute power in times of emergency, serving a similar function in the classical era as dictators did for rome in the Republican era. It was only in the medical period that those germs began to have a negative connotation.Â
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Since a lot of people don’t know, the word tyrant didn’t have any kind of negative connotation back then. I tyrant was someone who was given absolute power in times of emergency, serving a similar function in the classical era as dictators did for rome in the Republican era. It was only in the medical period that those germs began to have a negative connotation.Â