How is a tyrant defined and how did they come to power? Choose two correct answers. A tyrant describes a man who seized control of the state by a coup and governed illegally as a dictator. They are the result of a military coup and tyrants derived primarily from the lower classes. They emerged to end the vicious infighting among the nobility for power, which was highly disruptive and destabilizing for the polis. They claimed power as descendants of the great kings of the Bronze Age.

How is a tyrant defined and how did they come to power? Choose two correct answers. A tyrant describes a man who seized control of the state by a coup and governed illegally as a dictator. They are the result of a military coup and tyrants derived primarily from the lower classes. They emerged to end the vicious infighting among the nobility for power, which was highly disruptive and destabilizing for the polis. They claimed power as descendants of the great kings of the Bronze Age.

		A tyrant describes a man who seized control of the state by a coup and governed illegally as a dictator.
		They are the result of a military coup and tyrants derived primarily from the lower classes.
		They emerged to end the vicious infighting among the nobility for power, which was highly disruptive and destabilizing for the polis.
		They claimed power as descendants of the great kings of the Bronze Age.