Agathocles (writers)


Agathocles was a Greek historian who wrote a history of Cyzicus in the Ionic dialect. He is called by Athenaeus both a Babylonian and a Cyzican. He may originally have come from Babylon, and have settled at Cyzicus. The first and third books are referred to by Athenaeus. The time at which Agathocles lived is unknown, and his work is now lost; but it seems to have been extensively read in antiquity, as it is referred to by Cicero, Pliny, and other ancient writers. Agathocles also spoke of the origin of Rome. The scholiast on Apollonius cites Memoirs by an Agathocles, who is usually supposed to be the same as the above-mentioned one.
There are several other writers of the same name, whose works are lost to us but are mentioned by later writers: