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A Greek aristocrat who seized power with the aid of the hoplites and ruled outside the traditional constitutional framework was called:

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A Greek aristocrat who seized power with the aid of the hoplites and ruled outside the traditional constitutional framework was called a tyrant.

Historians agree that a man called Peisistratos was the first tyrant in ancient Greece. Tyrant were absolutists rulers that exerted too much power and control over the people. The way they got to power was by inheritance or through unconstitutional ways and oppressed people. Of course, Greeks despised them.

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