Quote Originally Posted by Phalanx300 View Post
And as I said, can it be called Tyranic when the "Tyrans" are elected?
Of course, Hitler being a good example. There are two type of legitimacy to govern: origin legitimacy and exercise legitimacy. You must have both to be a legitimate government.

In this case, the spartan government can't be called tyrannical when such tyranny is institutionalized and respected for ages and ages.

Nabis, on the other hand, was definitively tyrannical.