it is something new in the Greek experience,

这是他们所经历的新时期
they haven't had kings like that even in their legends.

即使是在神话传说中都没有如此的国君
So, that's going to be a central idea that surrounds the concept of tyranny.

所以这就是关于僭主制大致的意义
The Greek word that comes closest to it,

有个古希腊词语与它意思非常接近
but it doesn't do the same job is Monarchos,

但是并不是一样的那就是Monarchos
our word monarch and that simply means a ruler who is one, a single ruler.

即英语中的帝王意思就是一人独掌大权
Well, you know you need a word for that in Greek

总之希腊语中得有一个词来描述僭主
because that's not the natural thing in Greece.

因为这在古希腊是不正常的事情
As you know already,

我们已经知道
every regime that we have discussed from the Homeric world on,

我们所探讨的每一个政体从荷马时代
post Bronze Age,

到后青铜时代
shows multiple kings

都出现在了《伊利亚特》与《奥德赛》中