The Greeks - 404: The Tyranny of the Thirty
In 404 the victorious Spartan general, Lysander, replaced the popular assembly of Athens with an oligarchy of thirty men, called simply 'The Thirty'. It proved to be an ill-judged decision. A bloodbath followed in which 1,500 people were executed, and 5000 either fled the city or were exiled. A year later, the Spartan king, Pausanias,