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Almost everywhere, the power of hereditary kings (“basilei”) or those who have already managed to replace their elected rulers from a narrow circle of tribal nobility is abolished. Instead, in a number of policies of mainland Greece (Sikyon, Corinth, Megara, Athens) and Asia Minor, outstanding personalities become heads of state, pursuing their policies using violent methods. Such rulers, who established a regime of personal power in the state, were called by the Greeks "tyrants", and the form of government they introduced was called "tyranny". It is not surprising that these terms acquired a negative meaning even in antiquity.
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But the activities of some tyrants sometimes received, in fairness, an ambiguous assessment from their contemporaries and later Hellenic historians. The Athenian tyrant Pisistratus, for example, gained great popularity in his time (ruled three times, starting from 560 BC, died in 527 BC). With the help of some measures of a demagogic nature, he more than once managed to win the favor of the demos. Undoubtedly, Athens benefited from his foreign policy, aimed, in particular, at gaining control over important sea routes. Peisistratus introduced new religious festivities, which were celebrated popularly. He did a lot for the improvement and decoration of his native city. By his order, Homer's poems "Iliad" and "Odyssey", which had been passed down from generation to generation orally, were written down. The tendency to patronize literature and the arts was generally characteristic of early Greek tyranny.
But the tyrants of the 7th-6th centuries. BC. failed in the end to solve the problems that faced the archaic Greek policy, and thereby consolidate their power. This was done by the legislators-reformers who laid the foundations of ancient democracy.