tyrant

Examples of tyrant in the following topics:

• The Agora

  • The site was the location of private houses until the sixth century BCE until the Athenian tyrant Peisistratus decided to dedicate the center of the city to public space.
  • Tyrants continued to improve the agora with new buildings, temples, fountains, and trees.

• Bronze Sculpture in the Greek Early Classical Period

  • While the commissioner was a tyrant of the Greek colonial city of Gela on Sicily, the statue is believed to have been made in Athens.