For other uses of this term, see Athenagoras.
Athenagoras of Ephesus was a tyrant of the Ephesian polis in the sixth century BC. C.
It is known only through a mention in the Suda, a Byzantine encyclopedia that quotes him in the article «Hiponacte» at the same time as another tyrant of the same age called Komas, saying that around 540 BC. C. expelled from his city the satirical poet Hiponacte.
It is possible that Athenagoras was imposed by the Achaemenid king Cyrus II after his conquest of the region: it is also known that Cyrus dissolved the institutions of Cime, another city in Asia Minor, to impose a monarch. the news of the Suda does not testify. Bibliography
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