Syrphax
tyrant of Ephesus
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Syrphax was a tyrant of Ephesus during the late 4th century BCE. He and his family were stoned to death in 333 BCE after Alexander the Great took control of the city. Ephesus, a significant Greek city in Ionian Asia Minor, experienced periods of rule by tyrants. After Syrphax's death, the city was conquered by the Macedonian general Lysimachus and resettled between 286 and 281 BCE. Lysimachus was one of Alexander the Great's generals who came to rule parts of the divided Macedonian Empire.12
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