history (in Antiquities of the Jews) including Nimrod, Moses, the Maccabees and Herod the Great.

Greek political thought

The Greeks defined both usurpers and those inheriting rule from usurpers as tyrants. Polybius (c. 150 BC) indicated that eventually, any one-man rule (monarchy/executive) governing form would become corrupted into a tyranny.

The

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