Paseas
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- Not to be confused with Paseas, the Ancient Greek vase painter.
Paseas (Πασέας) was a tyrant
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
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city-state
City-state
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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 succeeded his son, Abantidas
Abantidas
Abantidas , the son of Paseas, became tyrant of the ancient Greek city-state of Sicyon after murdering Cleinias, the father of Aratus, 264 BC...
, in 252 BC. However, he was assassinated by Nicocles in 251 BC.