For others of this name see Archagathus (disambiguation)
Archagathus (Greek: Άρχάγαθος, flourished 4th century BC, died 307 BC) was a Syracusan Greek Prince.
Archagathus was a son of Agathocles of Syracuse and had a brother also called, Agathocles.[1] His father was the Greek Tyrant of Syracuse who later became King of Sicily.[2] [3] 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, occasioned by him having murdered a man called Lyciscus, who reproached him in committing incest with his step-mother Alcia[4], 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.
Archagathus firstly had some successful military victories, but afterwards he and his army being defeated three times were obliged to take refuge in Tunis.[5] His father returned to assist him; but the mutiny of the Syracusan soldiers forced Agathocles to leave Carthage, where Archagathus was murdered by the soldiers in their revenge. Archagathus had a son, also called Archagathus by an unnamed wife.[6]