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    Agathocles

    historical figure · 6 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages

    Agathocles of Sicily

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    Agathocles of Sicily1 mention

    Demetrius (Greek)

    whereas Demetrius used to rail and mock at those who gave the title of King to any one except his father and himself, and was well pleased to hear revellers pledge Demetrius as King, but Seleucus as Master of the Elephants, Ptolemy as Admiral, Lysimachus as Treasurer, and Agathocles of Sicily as Lord of the Isles.
    chapter 25

    in the texts

    Against Evergus and MnesibulusClassical · Greek

    The archon whose year is used to identify former senators as witnesses.

    To prove that I am speaking the truth in this, I beg all of you who were senators in the archonship of Agathocles to tell the facts to those who sit by you, and I will bring before you as witnesses all those whom I have been able to find who were senators that year.
    ch. 1

    LachesClassical · Greek

    Teacher of Damon the musician, mentioned only to establish Damon's credentials.

    for quite recently he introduced to myself a music-teacher for my son— Damon, pupil of Agathocles, who is not only the most exquisitely skilled of musicians, but in every other way as profitable a companion as you could wish for young men of that age.
    laches

    ProtagorasClassical · Greek

    A musician named by Protagoras as an earlier sophist who concealed his art within music.

    and music was the disguise employed by your own Agathocles, a great sophist, Pythocleides of Ceos, and many more.
    protagoras

    DemetriusImperial · Greek

    Sicilian dynast mockingly toasted by Demetrius as 'Lord of the Isles'; distinct from the Agathocles who is Lysimachus's son.

    whereas Demetrius used to rail and mock at those who gave the title of King to any one except his father and himself, and was well pleased to hear revellers pledge Demetrius as King, but Seleucus as Master of the Elephants, Ptolemy as Admiral, Lysimachus as Treasurer, and Agathocles of Sicily as Lord of the Isles.
    chapter 25

    PyrrhusImperial · Greek

    Ruler of Syracuse, father of Lanassa, whose earlier campaigns in Sicily and against Carthage are invoked by Pyrrhus.

    and Lanassa, the daughter of Agathocles of Syracuse, who brought him as her dowry the city of Corcyra, which had been captured by Agathocles.
    chapter 9
    Sicily is near, and holds out her hands to us, an island abounding in wealth and men, and very easy to capture, for all is faction there, her cities have no government, and demagogues are rampant now that Agathocles is gone.
    chapter 14
    For who could keep his hands off Libya, or Carthage, when that city got within his reach, a city which Agathocles, slipping stealthily out of Syracuse and crossing the sea with a few ships, narrowly missed taking?
    chapter 14

    Regum et imperatorum apophthegmataImperial · Greek

    King of Sicily and son of a potter, who displayed earthen and golden vessels together to remind youths of his rise by valor; answered wall-taunts about his low birth with wit while besieging a city; sold reproaching prisoners into slavery; and rebuked complaining Ithacans by comparing his mariners' theft of cattle to their own king's blinding of a shepherd.

    AGATHOCLES was the son of a potter.
    ch. 1