Monarchy In Ancient Greece

Throughout the ages of ancient Greece, many different types of rule were enacted. Some were more rare than others, such as monarchies, but they all played at least a small part in Greek history.
Monarchy was not a common type of rule in Greece. The Greek people, especially those of the city state of Athens, would often conflate monarchy with tyranny. The Athenians were subjected to the invasions of Darius and Xerxes of Persia, so it would make sense that they would hold animosity against these tyrants and their type of rule. Athens did have a monarchy at one point in history, however, before the democracy that they were so famous for. This monarchy was short lived, however, and soon after Athens was developed it evolved into an oligarchy. (Athenian