Agathocles is a court official and plotter of the Ptolemaic Period. He got essential in the court in the dominate of Ptolemy V Epiphanes (205-180 B.C.E.). Agathocles engaged forces with a courtier described Sosibius in a palace takeover in Alexandria, the great of Egypt.Ambitious and anxious to control Ptolemy V, who was rather young, Agathocles and Sosibius late the kings mother, Arsinoe (3). Agathocles served as strong for the orphaned king, but he was unable to hold office.
Governor Tlepolemus of the city of Pelusium (near modern Port Said in Egypt) was so sore by the murder of Queen Arsinoe that he marched on Alexandria with his frontier army. on the way, Tlepolemus alleged his intentions to the Egyptian people, who left their hamlets to swell the orders of his forces. An angry horde of Egyptians thus presented Agathocles at the palace in the capital. He quit on the spot and hurried home to check for a flying out of the city. Ptolemy V was carried to a great arena in Alexandria, surrounded by Tlepolemuss troops. There the Egyptians hooked before the young king, relying their loyalty. The governor then demanded vengeance for the death of Queen Arsinoe, and Ptolemy V held. A crowd raced to Agathocles home, where they get him to death on with his full family.
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Governor Tlepolemus of the city of Pelusium (near modern Port Said in Egypt) was so sore by the murder of Queen Arsinoe that he marched on Alexandria with his frontier army. on the way, Tlepolemus alleged his intentions to the Egyptian people, who left their hamlets to swell the orders of his forces. An angry horde of Egyptians thus presented Agathocles at the palace in the capital. He quit on the spot and hurried home to check for a flying out of the city. Ptolemy V was carried to a great arena in Alexandria, surrounded by Tlepolemuss troops. There the Egyptians hooked before the young king, relying their loyalty. The governor then demanded vengeance for the death of Queen Arsinoe, and Ptolemy V held. A crowd raced to Agathocles home, where they get him to death on with his full family.
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