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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 ).
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Alexander II was a king of Epirus, and the son of Pyrrhus and Lanassa, the daughter of the Sicilian tyrant Agathocles.
Agathocles ( 361 – 289 BC ), ( Greek name Ἀγαθοκλῆς ( Agathokles ): derived from αγαθός ( agathos ) good and κλέος ( kleos ) glory ), was a Greek tyrant of Syracuse ( 317 – 289 BC ) and king of Sicily ( 304 – 289 BC ).
Agathocles was born at Thermae Himeraeae ( modern name Termini Imerese ) in Sicily.
In 311 BC Agathocles was besieged and defeated in Syracuse in the battle of Himera.
Agathocles was married three times.
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.
Machiavelli goes on to reason that Agathocles ' success, in contrast to other criminal tyrants, was due to his ability to mitigate his crimes by limiting them to those that " are applied at one blow and are necessary to one's security, and that are not persisted in afterwards unless they can be turned to the advantage of the subjects ".
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.
The Halycus, which was established as the eastern boundary of the Carthaginian dominion in Sicily by the treaty of 383 BCE, seems to have generally continued to be so recognized, notwithstanding temporary interruptions ; and was again fixed as their limit by the treaty with Agathocles in 314 BCE.
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.
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 most serious charge against Timaeus is that he wilfully distorted the truth, when influenced by personal considerations: thus, he was less than fair to Dionysius I of Syracuse and Agathocles, while loud in praise of his favourite Timoleon.
He was never defeated in battle and was posthumously qualified as the Invincible ( Aniketos ) on the pedigree coins of his successor Agathocles.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After Mieszko Talarczyk joined the band as a guitarist in 1993, the band was featured on Blind World split EP with Agathocles.
Agathocles first started doing concerts a year later, in 1985, although audiences were always small due to there only being a small minority who listened to the type of extreme music the band was producing.
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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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Agathocles, tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily from 317 BC and self-styled king of Sicily after 304 BC ( b. 361 BC )
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.
Greek leaders in Sicily continued to recruit their mercenary forces from the same quarter as late as the time of Agathocles.
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.
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* Agathocles, the new tyrant of Syracuse, extends his rule over most of the island.
This line-up would stay constant through 1996 and for most of 1997, two years in which Agathocles did a lot more touring.
Veterans of Agathocles, settled now at Messana, offered their help, but Campania and most of the south gave Pyrrhus no encouragement.
The images Balarama and Krishna, two most celebrated Vrishnis depicted in a coin of the Indo-Greek king Agathocles of Bactria | Agathocles ( ca.
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* some fragments of the 38th book of the Histories ( the life of Agathocles );
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( follows generally Timaeus who had a special grudge against Agathocles )
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.
* Agathocles ' widow Lysandra flees with their children and with Alexander, Agathocles ' brother, to the court of Seleucus, who at once invades Lysimachus ' territory in Asia Minor.
In the meantime, the Mamertines, a body of Campanian mercenaries who had been employed by Agathocles, had seized the stronghold of Messana, and proceeded in harassing the Syracusans.
Agathocles Dikaios ( " Glory of Goodness ", ο Δίκαιος " the Just ") was a Buddhist Indo-Greek king, who reigned between around 190 and 180 BCE.
However, the similarities between his coinage and that of Pantaleon make it probable that Agathocles was indeed a relative of the latter, who in that case might have been a usurper as well.
They next had to contend against the arms of Agathocles, who ravaged their coasts with his fleets, took the city of Hipponium, which he converted into a strong fortress and naval station, and compelled the Bruttians to conclude a disadvantageous peace.
Her paternal grandfather was Agathocles of Pella a nobleman who was a contemporary to King Philip II of Macedon who reigned 359 BC-336 BC, while her maternal grandfather was the powerful Regent Antipater.
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