Heracleides of Leontini

For other people named Heracleides, see Heraclides.

Heracleides (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλείδης) was a tyrant or ruler of Leontini at the time when Pyrrhus of Epirus landed in Sicily, in 278 BCE. He was one of the first to offer submission to that monarch.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Diod. Exc. Hoeschel. xxii. p. 296

 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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