Tyrants of the past

[Ghost101]

An excellent topic for a historical discussion Mr. Ghost.

Here is my list of certain infamous despots, autocrats and other malevolent, imperious, vindictive, excessive and capricious rulers of history:

-Sargon I of the Akkadians
-Nebuchadnezzar II of the Neo-Babylonians
-Alexander III of Macedonia
-Antiochus II Theos of the Seleucid Empire
-Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the Seleucid Empire
-Heliocles I of the Graeco-Bactrian Kingdom
-Dionysius: Despot of Syracuse
-Agathocles: Despot of Syracuse
-Caligula: Roman Princeps
-Nero: Roman Princeps
-Galba: Roman usurper
-Otho: Roman usurper
-Vitellius: Roman usurper
-Domitian: Imperial dynast of the Flavian Dynasty
-Commodus: Imperial dynast
-Septimius Severus: Roman usurper and founder of the Severan Dynasty
-Caracalla: An Imperial dynast of the Severan Dynasty
-Heliogabalus: Imperial dynast of the Severan Dynasty
-Maximinus Thrax: Roman usurper, a Thracian barbarian.
-Carienus
-Diocletian
-Constantine I: Founder of the Constantinian Dynasty
-Honorius: Western Roman Emperor and an imperial dynast of the Theodosian Dynasty
-Geiseric: King of the Vandals
-Clovis I: King of the Franks
-Phocas: A Byzantine usurper who murdered the rightful Eastern Roman Emperor Maurice

I'm rather curious, Conrad, why you chose Alexander the Great as a tyrant. After all he was basically the forerunner for the Roman Empire and did end the Persian empire, which was considered barbaric by some people.