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
• Heraclides (son of Antiochus), general of Alexander the Great
• Heraclides (son of Argaeus), admiral of Alexander the Great
• Heraclides of Tarentum (c. 2nd century BC), a physician of the Empiric school
• Heraclides (painter) (2nd century BC), Macedonian painter
• Heraclides of Erythrae (1st century BC), a physician of Erythrae in Ionia
• 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)
• Heraclides Lembus, a philosopher
• Heraclides, a grouping of swallowtail butterflies within the genus Papilio

See also

• Heraclid (disambiguation)