* Agathocles, tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily from 317 BC and self-styled king of Sicily after 304 BC ( b. 361 BC )

He was born in 362 / 361 BC, as the second son of Agathocles and his wife, perhaps named Arsinoe and his paternal grandfather may have been called Alcimachus.

* Ptolemy Dynasty: Affiliated Lines – Agathocles

* Agathocles, Tyrant of Syracuse, in office 317 – 289 BC

His second wife was Lanassa, daughter of King Agathocles of Syracuse ( r. 317 – 289 BC ), whom he married in about 295 BC and the couple had two sons Alexander and Helenus ; Lanassa left Pyrrhus.

* Blind World – split w / Agathocles ( 1993 )

After the death of Demetrius, the Bactrian kings Pantaleon and Agathocles struck the first bilingual coins with Indian inscriptions found as far east as Taxila so in their time ( c. 185 – 170 BC ) the Bactrian kingdom seems to have included Gandhara.

Pedigree coin of Agathocles with Demetrius I of Bactria | Demetrius I. Obv: – Greek language | Greek inscription reads: ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΑΝΙΚΗΤΟΥ i. e. " of Demetrius the invincible ".

Reverse – Greek inscription reads: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΟΝΤΟΣ ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ i. e. " of Reign Agathocles the Just ".

Reverse – Greek inscription reads: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΟΝΤΟΣ ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ i. e. " of Reign Agathocles the Just ".

But great as was the address of Sosibius in all the arts and intrigues of a courtier, he was no match for his colleague Agathocles ; and although, after the death of Ptolemy Philopator ( 203 BC ), the two ministers at first assumed in conjunction the guardianship of the young king, Ptolemy Epiphanes ( 203 – 181 BC ), Sosibius seems to have been soon supplanted and put to death by his insidious rival.

The war ended with another treaty of peace which did not prevent the Carthaginians interfering in the politics of Syracuse after the death of Agathocles ( 289 BC ).

* Agathocles, tyrant of Syracuse ( d. 289 BC )

When Agathocles died in 289 BC he left many of his mercenaries idle and unemployed in Sicily.

In 311 BC Agathocles was besieged and defeated in Syracuse in the battle of Himera.

After concluding peace with Carthage in 306 BC, Agathocles styled himself king of Sicily in 304 BC, and established his rule over the Greek cities of the island more firmly than ever.

His first wife was the widow of his patron Damas by whom he had two sons: Archagathus and Agathocles, whom they were both murdered in 307 BC.

In 288 BC, the Mamertines — a group of Italian ( Campanian ) mercenaries originally hired by Agathocles of Syracuse — occupied the city of Messana ( modern Messina ) in the northeastern tip of Sicily, killing all the men and taking the women as their wives.

But the struggle among the city's parties restarted after his death and ended with the rise of another tyrant, Agathocles, who seized power with a coup in 317 BC.

Segesta remained an ally of Carthage, it was besieged by Dionysius of Syracuse in 397 BC, and it was destroyed by Agathocles in 307 BC, but recovered.

In 303 BC after a vain siege by Cassander, the island was occupied for a short time by the Lacedaemonian general Cleonymus of Sparta, then regained its independence and later it was attacked and conquered by Agathocles.

He married ( about 220 BC ) his sister Arsinoë III, but continued to be ruled by his mistress Agathoclea, sister of Agathocles.

* Oenanthe of Egypt ( flourished 3rd century BC ), an Egyptian Greek noblewoman and the wife of Agathocles

* Hamilcar, son of Gisgo and grandson to Hanno the Great, led a campaign against Agathocles of Syracuse between 311 BC and 307 BC in the Third Sicilian War, before his capture and execution.

* Agathocles rule provokes Tlepolemus, the governor of Pelusium ( Egypt's eastern frontier city ), into action.

* The Mamertines, a body of Campanian mercenaries who have been employed by Agathocles, the former tyrant of Syracuse, capture the stronghold of Messana ( Messina in north-eastern Sicily ), from which they harass the Syracusans.

* After twice being banished for attempting to overthrow the oligarchical party, Agathocles returns with an army and banishes or murders about 10, 000 citizens ( including the oligarchs ), and sets himself up as tyrant of Syracuse.

* Lysimachus ' wife, Arsinoe, being keen to gain the succession to the kingdom of Thrace for her sons in preference to Agathocles ( the eldest son of Lysimachus ), intrigues against him with the help of her brother Ptolemy Keraunos.

Agathocles issued a series of " pedigree " dynastic coins, probably with the intent to advertise his lineage and legitimize his rule, linking him to Alexander the Great, a king Antiochus Nikator ( Greek: " Νικάτωρ " " Victorious ", probably intended is Antiochus III ), the founder of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom Diodotus and his son Diodotus II, Euthydemus, Pantaleon, and Demetrius.

She made her mark in historical romance, and the first of her novels of this class, Agathocles ( 1808 ), an answer to Edward Gibbon's attack on that hero in his The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, attained great popularity.

This agreement allows the tyrant of Syracuse, Agathocles, to strengthen his rule over the Greek cities of Sicily.

Greek leaders in Sicily continued to recruit their mercenary forces from the same quarter as late as the time of Agathocles.

Rev: Lion, Greek legend BASILEOS AGATOKLEOU " King Agathocles ".

Agathocles was born at Thermae Himeraeae ( modern name Termini Imerese ) in Sicily.

It is probable that it passed under the authority of Agathocles, who drove the historian Timaeus into exile ; and some time after this it was subject to a domestic despot of the name of Tyndarion, who was contemporary with Hicetas of Syracuse and Phintias of Agrigentum.

In a 2nd century BC inscription recording a decree of Histria honouring Agathocles, the region already was named Scythia, while the earliest usage of the name " Scythia Minor " ( Mikrá Skythia ) in literature is found in Strabo's early 1st-century Geography.

Agathocles was cited as from the lowest, most abject condition of life and as an example of “ those who by their crimes come to be princes ” in Chapter VIII of Niccolò Machiavelli ’ s treatise on politics, The Prince ( 1513 ).

Still, if the courage of Agathocles in entering into and extricating himself from dangers be considered, together with his greatness of mind in enduring overcoming hardships, it cannot be seen why he should be esteemed less than the most notable captain.

European groups, such as Agathocles, from Belgium, Patareni, of Croatia, and Fear of God, from Switzerland, are important early practitioners of the style.

The current remains might be from the reconstruction after the destruction of the city by Agathocles.

* The Syracusans ask for help against their tyrant Agathocles from the Carthaginians, who, fearing for their own possessions in Sicily, send a large force to the island.

* The tyrant of Syracuse Agathocles escapes from the siege of the city by the Carthaginians and carries the war with the Carthaginians back into his enemy's territory.

* Leaving his brother Antander to continue the defence of Syracuse, Agathocles lands in North Africa with the aim of distracting the Carthaginians from their siege of Syracuse.

According to Bevan the child king's consent was given more from fear than anything else and Agathocles along with several of his supporters being killed by the Alexandrian mob.

The Greco-Bactrian kings issued the first cupronickel coins, with Euthydemus II, dating from 180 to 170 BCE, and his younger brothers Pantaleon and Agathocles around 170 BCE.

From the way in which it is mentioned in the wars of Dionysius, Agathocles, and Hieron, it is clear that it was a place of power and importance: but from the time of Hieron it disappears from history, and no mention is found of it in the Verrine orations of Cicero.

In the summer of 1991, Agathocles also went on another tour, this time in East Germany, with vocalist Tuur from fellow Belgian mincecore band Reign Of Terror.

Agathocles found a new guitarist to take over from Chris-Steve ( from Belgian grindcore band Intestinal Disease )-and Jan played bass guitar ( as well as doing vocals ).

Keraunos sided with his other sister ( from the same mother ) Lysandra, who was Agathocles ' wife, and accompanied her to the court of Seleucus in the East to solicit his aid.

Kings Euthydemus, Euthydemus II, Agathocles and Pantaleon made these coin issues around 170 BC and it has alternatively been suggested that a nickeliferous copper ore was the source from mines at Anarak.

The Mamertines ( Mamertini " sons of Mars ") were mercenaries of Italian origin who had been hired from their home in Campania by Agathocles, Tyrant of Syracuse and self-proclaimed King of Sicily.

4th century BC ) was a native of Corinth who was made supreme commander of Syracuse by the citizens of the Sicilian polis of Syracuse in 320 BC and was able to banish the tyrant Agathocles from the city.