# Agathocles — The Prince character guide

> Agathocles in The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Agathocles, Agathocles the Sicilian

**First appearance:** 0014-viii-concerning-those-who-have-obtained-a-principality-by-wickedness

## Who they are

Sicilian tyrant who rose from low birth to kingship through crime.

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