Agatharchus_of_Syracuse

Agatharchus of Syracuse

Agatharchus of Syracuse

5th-century BC Syracusian admiral and general

Agatharchus or Agatharch of Syracuse (Greek: Ἀγάθαρχος) was a Syracusan from Magna Graecia who was placed by the Syracusans over a fleet of twelve ships in 413 BC, to visit their allies and harass the Athenians. He was afterwards, in the same year, one of the Syracusan commanders in the decisive battle fought in the city's harbor during the Battle of Syracuse.[1][2][3]

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  1. [1]
    Thucydides, vii. 25, 70
  2. [2]
    Diodorus Siculus, xiii. 13
  3. [3]
    Smith, William (1867), "Agatharchus (1)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, p. 61, archived from the original on 2011-05-14, retrieved 2007-12-30{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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