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TYRANT (Gr. r6pavvos, master, ruler) , a term
modern
character . This use is, however, based on a complete misapprehension of the application of the Greek
sovereignty
Greek
term
tyrant
century in Athens, to whom the democracy of Pericles was the ideal of government. Thus the government which Lysander set up in Athens at the close of the Peloponnesian War is called that of the " Thirty Tyrants " (see CRITIAS
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