Tyrant Timeline

• c. 660 BCE
  Pheidon is tyrant in Argos.
• c. 657 BCE - 585 BCE
  The Kypselidai are tyrants of Corinth.
• c. 627 BCE - c. 587 BCE
  Periander is tyrant at Corinth.
• c. 570 BCE - c. 549 BCE
  The tyrant Phalaris rules Agrigento, expanding its territory.
• c. 560 BCE
  Pisistratos becomes tyrant in Athens for the first time.
• c. 546 BCE
  Pisistratus lands his Argive mercenary force at Marathon and with victory at Pallene establishes himself once again as tyrant of Athens.
• 535 BCE - 522 BCE
  Polycrates rules as tyrant of Samos.
• 514 BCE
  The tyrant of Athens Hipparchos is killed by Harmodios and Aristogeiton - the 'tyrannicides'.
• 491 BCE - 478 BCE
  Gelon is tyrant of Syracuse.
• 491 BCE - 478 BCE
  Reign of Gelon, tyrant of Gela on Sicily.
• c. 489 BCE - c. 473 BCE
  The tyrant Theron rules Agrigento.
• 480 BCE
  Tyrant of Syracuse Gelon defeats the Carthaginians at the battle of Himera.
• 478 BCE - 467 BCE
  Hiero I is tyrant of Syracuse.
• c. 460 BCE - 403 BCE
  Life of Critias, one of the Thirty Tyrants of Athens.
• 405 BCE
  Dionysius becomes tyrant in Syracuse, Sicily.
• 397 BCE
  Dionysius I of Syracuse employs wheeled seige towers and bolt throwers for the first time in Greek warfare at the seige of Motya.
• 367 BCE
  Dionysius II becomes tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily.
• 356 BCE
  Dion becomes tyrant of Syracuse.
• 288 BCE
  Hicetus becomes tyrant of Syracuse.
• 270 BCE - 215 BCE
  Hiero II is tyrant of Syracuse.