Heraclides
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Heraclides , Heracleides or Herakleides (Greek: ) may refer to:
- Heracleides of CymeHeracleides of CymeHeracleides of Cyme is a little-attested Greek historian who wrote a multivolume Persica, or history of Persia, not extant. Fragments from the Persica are preserved primarily by Athenaeus and describe the customs of the Persian court...
(fl.FloruitFloruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
350 BC), a little-attested historian - Heraclides of AenusHeraclides of AenusHeraclides of Aenus was one of Plato's students. Around 360 BC, he and his brother Python assassinated Cotys I, the ruler of Thrace....
, one of PlatoPlatoPlato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...
's students - Heraclides of ErythraeHeraclides of ErythraeHeraclides of Erythrae, , a physician of Erythrae in Ionia, who was a pupil of Chrysermus, a fellow-pupil of Apollonius, and a contemporary of Strabo in the 1st century BC. Galen calls him the most distinguished of the pupils of Chrysermus, and mentions a work written by him, On the school of...
(1st century BC), a physician of Erythrae in Ionia - Heraclides Lembus, a philosopher
- Heraclides PonticusHeraclides PonticusHeraclides Ponticus , also known as Herakleides and Heraklides of Pontus, was a Greek philosopher and astronomer who lived and died at Heraclea Pontica, now Karadeniz Ereğli, Turkey. He is best remembered for proposing that the earth rotates on its axis, from west to east, once every 24 hours...
(387–312 BC), a philosopher - Heraclides of TarentumHeraclides of TarentumHeraclides of Tarentum, , was a Greek physician of the Empiric school who wrote commentaries on the works of Hippocrates....
(c. 2nd century BC), a physician of the Empiric school - Heraclides (son of Antiochus)Heraclides (son of Antiochus)For other persons with the same name, see HeraclidesHeraclides 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....
general of Alexander the Great - Heraclides (son of Argaeus)Heraclides (son of Argaeus)For other uses, see HeraclidesHeraclides ,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...
admiral of Alexander the Great - HeraclidesHeraclides (painter)For other uses, see HeraclidesHeraclides 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...
Macedonian painter of 2nd c.BC