Agathocles (Prince of Thales)

Agathocles the Prince of Thales. This prince fell victim to the political  intrigues of Arsinoe (2), the sister of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285-246 B.C.E.). The son of King Lysimachus, he was the superior heritor to the throne of Thrace, a neighborhood in the modern  southeastern  Balkans.  Agathocles  featured  the  political deep of Arsinoe. She married  Lysimachus  and  bore him  two  children,  seeing  Agathocles  as  an  obstruction to the throne. He became the objective of ridicule and rumors in the court of Thrace, whole fashioned to isolate him and to alienate  him  from  his  father.  Arsinoe  and  her followings then  impeached  him  of  treason,  requiring  he  was  bent  on slaying Lysimachus  and making  the  throne.  Lysimachus considered the charge and late Agathocles. Arsinoe did not do good from the death, however. When Lysimachus died, she presented her own melancholy consequences seeing her sons stopped from hereditary and having to flee to her half brother. The governor of Pergamum (modern Bergama in Turkey), so fearful by the unjust discussion of  the  Thracian  prince,  started  a  campaign  of  military payback against Lysimachus. Thrace fell to the Seleucids of Syria as a effect.

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