Heraclides
Heraclides, Heracleides or Herakleides (Greek: Ἡρακλείδης) may refer to:
- Several political leaders from ancient Syracuse, Sicily
- Heracleides (415 BC), son of Lysimachus, a Syracusan general during the siege of Syracuse in the Peloponnesian War 415 BC
- Heracleides (414 BC), another Syracusan general in the Peloponnesian War 414 BC
- Heracleides (409 BC), son of Aristogenes, a Syracusan admiral in the Peloponnesian War 409 BC
- Heracleides (admiral), admiral under Dionysius II of Syracuse and populist leader of Syracuse c. 357-355 BC
- Heracleides (317 BC), a Syracusan leader who sustained Sosistratus in 317 BC
- Heracleides (uncle), an uncle of Agathocles of Syracuse
- Heracleides (307 BC), the second son of Agathocles killed 307 BC
- Heracleides of Leontini, a ruler or tyrant of Leontini 278 BC
- Heracleides of Mylasa, (fl. 498 BC), a general from Mylasa, who commanded the Carian Greeks against the Persians 498 BC.
- Heraclides Ponticus (390–310 BC), philosopher
- Heracleides of Cyme (fl. 350 BC), a little-attested historian
- Heracleides of Oxyrhinchis, an ancient historian
- Heracleides of Cyme, tyrant of Cyme in the 3rd century BCE of uncertain name, usually accepted to be Heraclitus of Cyme
- Heraclides of Aenus, one of Plato's students, with his brother Python in 358 BC he assassinated Cotys, king of Thrace
- Heraclides (son of Antiochus), general of Alexander the Great
- Heraclides (son of Argaeus), admiral of Alexander the Great
- Heracleides of Maroneia, a Greek in the service of the Thracian chief Seuthes c. 300 BC
- Heraclides (290 BC), an officer of Demetrius Poliorcetes commanding the garrison of Athens
- Heracleides of Tarentum, an officer of Philip V of Macedon c. 213-199 BC
- Heracleides of Gyrton, a Thessalian cavalry commander in the army of Philip at the battle of Cynoscephalae
- Heracleides of Byzantium, an ambassador of Antiochus III the Great 190 BC
- Heracleides (ambassador), an envoy of Antiochus IV Epiphanes 169-162 BC
- Heraclides (painter) a Macedonian painter of ships and encaustic, c. 168 BC
- Heracleides of Magnesia, author of a lost history of Mithridates VI of Pontus
- Heracleides of Odessus, a Greek historian mentioned by Stephanus Byzantinus
- Heraclides Ponticus the Younger (1st century), Greek scholar who studied in Alexandria and worked in Rome (large passages from his works were published by Porphyry)
- Heracleides (rhetor), or Heracleides of Lycia, a Greek rhetorician of Lycia from the second century of our era. He was a disciple of Herodes Atticus, and taught in Athens and Smyrna
- Heraclides Lembus, a philosopher
- Heracleides (architect), an architect
- Heracleides of Alexandria, Greek grammarian
- Heracleides of Ephesus, a sculptor, son of Agasias
- Heracleides the Phocian, a sculptor from Phocis
- Heracleides of Sinope, a poet with an epigram in the Greek Anthology
- Several ancient physicians:
- Heraclides (physician), son of Hippocrates I, married to Phaeniarete (or Praxithea), father of Sosander and Hippocrates II
- Heracleides Tarentinus (c. 2nd century BC), a physician of the Empiric school
- Heraclides of Erythrae (1st century BC), a physician of Erythrae in Ionia
- Heraclides of Smyrna (1st century BC), a follower of Hicesius, head of the Erasistratean school of medicine at Smyrna
- Heraclides, a grouping of swallowtail butterflies within the genus Papilio
See also
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