Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 62364-h.htm or 62364-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/62364/62364-h/62364-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/62364/62364-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/originoftyranny00urepuoft Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Superscripts are denoted by a caret before a single superscripted character or a series of superscripted characters enclosed in curly braces, e.g. M^r. or M^{ister}. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter. THE ORIGIN OF TYRANNY Cambridge University Press C. F. Clay, Manager London: Fetter Lane, E.C. 4 [Illustration] New York: The Macmillan Co. Bombay } Calcutta } Macmillan and Co., Ltd. Madras } Toronto: The Macmillan Co. of Canada, Ltd. Tokyo: Maruzen-Kabushiki-Kaisha All Rights Reserved THE ORIGIN OF TYRANNY by P. N. URE, M.A. Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Professor of Classics, University College, Reading Cambridge At the University Press 1922 Printed in Great Britain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE The views expressed in the following chapters were first published in the _Journal of Hellenic Studies_ for 1906 in a short paper which gave a few pages each to Samos and Athens and a few sentences each to Lydia, Miletus, Ephesus, Argos, Corinth, and Megara. The chapters on Argos, Corinth, and Rome are based on papers read to the Oxford Philological Society in 1913 and to the Bristol branch of the Classical Association in 1914.