{"slug": "agathocles", "label": "Agathocles", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathocles", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q391435", "qid": "Q391435", "description": "Wikimedia disambiguation page", "entries": 11, "years": 11, "span": [-360, -268], "span_label": ["361 BCE", "269 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "syracuse-sicily", "label": "Syracuse, Sicily", "shared": 10}, {"slug": "sicily", "label": "Sicily", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "carthage", "label": "Carthage", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "campania", "label": "Campania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hiero-ii-of-syracuse", "label": "Hiero II of Syracuse", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "messina", "label": "Messina", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "north-africa", "label": "North Africa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cyrenaica", "label": "Cyrenaica", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -360, "year_label": "361 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Agathocles, tyrant of Syracuse (d. 289 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1226326183#Births", "title": "361 BC", "revid": 1226326183, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -324, "year_label": "325 BCE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Agathocles, a rich and ambitious citizen of Syracuse, is exiled for attempting to overthrow the oligarchic party in the city.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372590647#Sicily", "title": "325 BC", "revid": 1372590647, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -316, "year_label": "317 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "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. Acestorides is banished from the city.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354173231#Sicily", "title": "317 BC", "revid": 1354173231, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -315, "year_label": "316 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Agathocles, the new tyrant of Syracuse, extends his rule over the eastern part of the island.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1007737454#Sicily", "title": "316 BC", "revid": 1007737454, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -314, "year_label": "315 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Agathocles, the tyrant of Syracuse, seizes the city of Messina.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367539376#Sicily", "title": "315 BC", "revid": 1367539376, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -312, "year_label": "313 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Deinocrates, the leader of the Syracusan exiles, sends envoys to the Carthaginians to ask them for help against Agathocles, the tyrant of Syracuse. The Carthaginians, fearing for their own possessions in Sicily, send a large force to the island.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300255025#Sicily", "title": "313 BC", "revid": 1300255025, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -309, "year_label": "310 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The tyrant of Syracuse, Agathocles, escapes from the siege of the city by the Carthaginians with a fleet and carries the war with the Carthaginians back into his enemy's territory. He defeats the Carthaginians in the Battle of White Tunis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351686531#Sicily_and_Africa", "title": "310 BC", "revid": 1351686531, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily and Africa"}}, {"year": -308, "year_label": "309 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "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 concludes a treaty with Ophellas, ruler of Cyrenaica. He then takes advantage of the civil unrest in Carthage and nearly succeeds in conquering the city.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247027805#Carthage", "title": "309 BC", "revid": 1247027805, "section": "Events › By place › Carthage"}}, {"year": -297, "year_label": "298 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Agathocles, king of Syracuse, assists the Italian Greeks against the Bruttians and supports the Greeks against the Romans.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129361#Sicily", "title": "298 BC", "revid": 1350129361, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -287, "year_label": "288 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Following the death of Agathocles, some of his disbanded mercenaries seize Messana in northeast Sicily and set up a society, calling themselves Mamertines (Sons of Mars). The city becomes a base from which they will ravage the Sicilian countryside.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373136664#Sicily", "title": "288 BC", "revid": 1373136664, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}, {"year": -268, "year_label": "269 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "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. The Syracusan military leader, Hieron, defeats them in a pitched battle at the Longanus River near Mylae, but Carthaginian forces intervene to prevent him from capturing Messana. His grateful countrymen then choose Hieron as their king and tyrant, to be known as Hieron II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370480925#Sicily", "title": "269 BC", "revid": 1370480925, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily"}}]}