Heraclides

Heraclides, Heracleides or Herakleides (Greek: Ἡρακλείδης) may refer to:

• Several political leaders from ancient Syracuse, Sicily
  • Heracleides (415BC), son of Lysimachus, a Syracusan general during the siege of Syracuse in the Peloponnesian War 415 BC
  • Heracleides (414BC), another Syracusan general in the Peloponnesian War 414 BC
  • Heracleides (409BC), son of Aristogenes, a Syracusan admiral in the Peloponnesian War 409 BC
  • Heracleides (admiral), admiral and populist leader of Syracuse c. 357-355 BC
  • Heracleides (317BC), a Syracusan leader who sustained Sosistratus in 317 BC
  • Heracleides (uncle), an uncle of Agathocles of Syracuse
  • Heracleides (307BC), 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
• 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 (290BC), 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), a Greek rhetorician of Lydia from the second century of our era. He was a disciple of Herodes Atticus, and taught at Smyrna
• Heraclides Lembus, a philosopher
• 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

• Heraclid (disambiguation)