What is "heraclides"

Heraclides, Heracleides or Herakleides (Greek: ) 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

Heraclides or Heracleides was a Macedonian painter, who was at first merely a marine painter of sea and ships, but afterwards acquired some distinction as a painter in encaustic. He lived in the time of Perseus, after whose fall he went to Athens (168 BC).

Heraclides or Heracleides , son of Antiochus, was hipparch of the ile of Hetairoi from Bottiaea, from the Triballian campaign of Alexander the Great in 335 BC until the battle of Gaugamela.

Heraclides , son of Argaeus was an admiral sent by Alexander, shortly before his death, to construct ships on the Caspian Sea, with a view to a voyage of discovery, similar to that of Nearchus. Whether the task was ever undertaken or completed is not known. Patrocles a general of Seleucus I is reported to have undertaken an exploration on the Caspian Sea.

Heraclides (born Cyprus, fl. 403), was a bishop of Ephesus.

Heracleides was a physician of ancient Greece who was said to have been the sixteenth in descent from Aesculapius, the son of Hippocrates I, who lived probably in the fifth century BCE. He married a woman named Phaeniarete, or, according to others, Praxithea, by whom he had two sons, Sosander and the renowned ancient physician Hippocrates.

Heracleides was an officer appointed by Demetrius I of Macedon to command the garrison which he left at Athens, apparently in 290 BCE. An attempt was made by the Athenians to possess themselves of the fortress in his charge (whether this was the Museum or the Peiraeeus does not appear, but probably the former) by a secret negotiation with Hierocles, a Carian leader of mercenaries; but the plan was betrayed by Hierocles to his commanding officer, and Heracleides caused the Athenians to be admitted into the fort, to the number of 420 men, when they were surrounded by his troops, and cut to pieces.