What is "archagathus"

Archagathus (; fl. 4th century BC, died 307 BC) was a Syracusan Greek Prince.

Archagathus was a son of Agathocles of Syracuse and had a brother named Heracleides. His father was the Greek Tyrant of Syracuse who later became King of Sicily. His mother was the widow of his father’s late patron, Damas.

He accompanied his father in an expedition to Carthage in 310 BC. Archagathus narrowly escaped being put to death in a tumult of soldiers, an event precipitated by him having murdered a man named Lyciscus, who reproached him in committing incest with his step-mother Alcia, the mother of his paternal half-sister, Lanassa. When his father was summoned from Carthage to return to state affairs in Sicily, Archagathus was left by his father to be in command of their army.

Initially, Archagathus had several successful military victories. Later, he and his army were defeated three times and were obliged to take refuge in Tunis. His father returned to assist him but the mutiny of the Syracusan soldiers forced Agathocles to leave Carthage. Archagathus was murdered by soldiers of Syracuse in their revenge. He had a son, also named Archagathus, by an unnamed wife.

Archagathus (, fl. 4th century BC) was a Syracusan Greek Prince.

Archagathus was the son of Archagathus by an unnamed wife, being a paternal grandson of the Sicilian Greek King Agathocles of Syracuse from his first wife.

Archagathus was described as a youth of great bravery and daring. After the death of his father in 307 BC, Archagathus murdered his paternal uncle Agathocles, so that he would succeed his paternal grandfather. After the death of his paternal uncle, he was in turn murdered by a local Greek citizen called Maemon.

Archagathus was an ancient well-attested local Greek name in Sicily and can refer to:

• Archagathus (son of Agathocles of Syracuse) (flourished 4th century BC), a Syracusan Greek Prince and first son of Agathocles of Syracuse
• Archagathus (grandson of Agathocles of Syracuse) (flourished 4th century BC), a Syracusan Greek Prince, son to the above named and grandson of Agathocles of Syracuse
• Archagathus of Libya (flourished 4th century BC and 3rd century BC), a Syracusan Greek Prince and a posthumous paternal half-brother to the first named Archagathus. He was the third son of Agathocles of Syracuse from his third wife Theoxena of Syracuse
• Caecilius of Calacte, originally called Archagathus a Silcian Jewish rhetorician that lived during the reign of the first Roman Emperor Augustus