# The Origin of Tyranny

Author: Ure, P. N. (Percy Neville), 1879-1950

Genre: Category: History - Ancient

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62364

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Origin+of+Tyranny+Ure&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The seventh and sixth centuries B.C. constitute from many points of view one of the most momentous periods in the whole of the world’s history. No doubt the greatest final achievements of the Greek race belong to the two centuries that followed. But practically all that is meant by the Greek spirit and the Greek genius had its birth in the earlier period. Literature and art, philosophy and science are at this present day largely following the lines that were then laid down for them, and this is equally the case with commerce. [Sidenote: (_a_) of the first known metal coins,] It was at the opening of this epoch that the Greeks or their half hellenized neighbours the Lydians brought about p...

## Chapters

- [Chapter XI. _Conclusion](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-tyranny-62364/chapters/12/index.md)
- [chapter XXX. of the _Virginians_, speaks of Queen Victoria’s great](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-tyranny-62364/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter IV. _Egypt](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-tyranny-62364/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter VIII. _Rome](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-tyranny-62364/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter I. _Introduction](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-tyranny-62364/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter II. _Athens](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-tyranny-62364/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter VI. _Argos](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-tyranny-62364/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter V. _Lydia](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-tyranny-62364/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter VII. _Corinth](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-tyranny-62364/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter III. _Samos](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-tyranny-62364/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter I. If, as there maintained, his exhortations not to be won over](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-tyranny-62364/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter IX. _Sicyon, Megara, Miletus, Ephesus, Leontini, Agrigentum,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-tyranny-62364/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter X. (a) _Capitalist Despots of the Age of Aristotle_, (b) _the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-tyranny-62364/chapters/11/index.md)