Heraclides

Heraclides, Heracleides or Herakleides (Greek: Ἡρακλείδης) in origin was any individual of the legendary clan of the Heracleidae, the mythological patronymic applying to persons descended from Hercules. As they were of the legendary tribe of the Dorians, the name in the classical age could mean anyone of Dorian background. The Dorians had their own group of dialects, which may or may not have been spoken by given individuals. Usage of the name was concentrated at Syracuse, a Dorian colony, and central Greece, legendary ancestral homeland of the Dorians, but they colonized the islands, Crete, and Anatolia as well. As a personal name, Heraclides may refer to:

Political or military leaders and related

At Syracuse

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

Elsewhere

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.
Heracleides of Cyme, tyrant of Cyme in the 3rd century BCE of uncertain name, usually accepted to be Heraclitus of Cyme
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

Philosophy

Heraclides Ponticus (390–310 BC), philosopher
Heraclides of Aenus, one of Plato's students, with his brother Python in 358 BC he assassinated Cotys, king of Thrace
Heraclides Lembus, a philosopher

Literature

Heracleides of Cyme (fl. 350 BC), a little-attested historian
Heracleides of Oxyrhinchis, an ancient historian
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
Heracleides of Alexandria, Greek grammarian
Heracleides of Sinope, a poet with an epigram in the Greek Anthology

Fine arts

Heraclides (painter) a Macedonian painter of ships and encaustic, c. 168 BC
Heracleides (architect), an architect
Heracleides of Ephesus, a sculptor, son of Agasias
Heracleides the Phocian, a sculptor from Phocis

Physicians

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

Other uses

Heraclides, a grouping of swallowtail butterflies within the genus Papilio