Euthydemus (tyrant)
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Euthydemus was a tyrant
of the ancient Greek
city-state
of Sicyon
in the 3rd century BC. He ruled jointly with Timocleidas
, but the two were deposed by the citizens of Sicyon. They replaced Euthydemus and Timocleidas with Cleinias
, although the historian
Plutarch
believed that Timocleidas ruled jointly with Cleinias.
Tyrant
A tyrant was originally one who illegally seized and controlled a governmental power in a polis. Tyrants were a group of individuals who took over many Greek poleis during the uprising of the middle classes in the sixth and seventh centuries BC, ousting the aristocratic governments.Plato and...
of the ancient Greek
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the...
city-state
City-state
A city-state is an independent or autonomous entity whose territory consists of a city which is not administered as a part of another local government.-Historical city-states:...
of Sicyon
Sicyon
Sikyon was an ancient Greek city situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth and Achaea on the territory of the present-day prefecture of Corinthia...
in the 3rd century BC. He ruled jointly with Timocleidas
Timocleidas
Timocleidas was a tyrant of the ancient Greek city-state of Sicyon in the 3rd century BC. He ruled jointly with Euthydemus, but the two were deposed by the citizens of Sicyon. They replaced Timocleidas and Euthydemus with Cleinias, although the historian Plutarch believed that Timocleidas ruled...
, but the two were deposed by the citizens of Sicyon. They replaced Euthydemus and Timocleidas with Cleinias
Cleinias
Cleinias , son of Alcibiades,, and member of the Alcmaeonidae family, was an Athenian who married Deinomache, the daughter of Megacles, and became the father of the famous Alcibiades. Plutarch tells us that he traced his family line back to Eurysaces, the son of Telamonian Ajax. He greatly...
, although the historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
Plutarch
Plutarch
Plutarch then named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus , c. 46 – 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia...
believed that Timocleidas ruled jointly with Cleinias.