There's no good Tyrant. But you will often see it translated,

没有好的Tyrant 最常见的翻译是
Oedipus Rex, into the Latin,but Rex means king.

拉丁语"Oedipus Rex" Rex就是王的意思
So, Oedipus the King is okay.

所以翻译成"俄狄浦斯王"是可以的
Actually, it's not bad to say Oedipus Rex,

其实说"俄狄浦斯王"也无妨
because the Romans had this idea that kings were bad;

但因为罗马人认为国王都是恶人
so there's a little bit of that glittering around the edge,

所以称之为王也会有点儿含沙射影
but for the Greeks that's not there at the beginning.

但在早期古希腊人对此是很陌生的
Okay, probably the contemporaries of Gyges and the tyrants

也许在巨吉斯同时代和他之后出现的
that came after him in Greece probably didn't use the term yet.

一些古希腊僭主并没有用那个词语
It probably sprang up at a later time,

这个词可能是在之后突然出现的
but we can't be sure of that.

我们也不太清楚
For the Greeks it originally meant something much more neutral,

对于古希腊人这个词的本义是中性词