Agathocles' reign as king in Sicily has …
Years: 289BCE - 289BCE
Agathocles' reign as king in Sicily has been peaceful, allowing him to enrich Syracuse with many public buildings.
Dissension among his family about the succession, however, causes him in his will to restore liberty to the Syracusans, and his death in 289 is followed by a recrudescence of Carthaginian power in Sicily.
