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Aristagoras of Cyme

fl. c. 513–499 BCE · 6th century BCE

Aristagoras of Cyme was a tyrant of the Aeolian city of Cyme under Persian rule. Herodotus lists him among the Greek tyrants who guarded Darius I's bridge over the Danube during the Scythian campaign of about 513 BCE. He was seized and deposed when the Ionian Revolt broke out in 499 BCE.

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