Hierocles
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Hierocles (or Hierokles) was a common first name in the Hellenized world and later in the Roman Empire that conquered much of it.
- Hierocles (proconsul), proconsul of Bithynia and Alexandria during the reign of Diocletian
- Hierocles (charioteer), the presumed lover and court official of the emperor Elagabalus
- Hierocles (Stoic), a philosopher of the 2nd century AD.
- Hierocles of Alexandria, fifth century Neoplatonist writer
- Hierocles, a soothsayer in the play Peace by Aristophanes
- Hierocles (author of Synecdemus), the otherwise unknown author of the Synecdemus