Heracleides (uncle)

For other people named Heracleides, see Heraclides.

Heracleides (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλείδης) was a man of ancient Syracuse, Sicily who was a relative of Agathocles of Syracuse, probably his uncle, and probably distinct from another Heracleides. Nothing further is known of him.[1]

There was a group in Syracuse at the time called the "Six Hundred Noblest" that was composed of the most influential citizens. Its leaders were Heracleides (Heraclides) and Sosistratus. Some scholars have suggested it possible that this Heracleides could be the same as Agathocles's uncle Heracleides, which would have implications for the common story of the low social station of Agathocles's family.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 19.2
  2. ↑ Tokarczuk, Ryszard (2013). "Internal Politics in Syracuse, 330-317 BC". In Dąbrowa, Edward. The Greek World in the 4th and 3rd Centuries BC. Electrum 19. Jagiellonian University Press. pp. 150, 153. ISBN 9788323334835. Retrieved 2016-04-12.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bunbury, Edward Herbert (1870). "Heracleides". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 2. p. 388. 

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