Heracleides of Sinope

Heracleides (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλείδης) of Sinope was a writer of ancient Greece. Under this name we possess a Greek epigram in the Greek Anthology.^[1] It is not improbable that two other epigrams^[2] are likewise his productions, though his native place is not mentioned there. He seems to have been a poet of some celebrity, as Diogenes Laërtius^[3] mentions him as ἐπιγραμμάτων ποιητὴς λιγυρός. Diogenes Laërtius mentions fourteen persons of this name.

Notes

1. Greek Anthology 7.329
2. Greek Anthology 7.281, 465
3. Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 5.94

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Leonhard Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Heracleides". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 2. p. 387.