Agathocles
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Against Evergus and Mnesibulus
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.
Laches
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.
Protagoras
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.