Hierocles
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Hierocles may refer to:
- Hierocles (Stoic)Hierocles (Stoic)Hierocles was a Stoic philosopher. Nothing is known about his life. Aulus Gellius mentions him as one of his contemporaries, and describes him as a "grave and holy man."...
, 2nd century, Stoic philosopher - Hierocles (charioteer)Hierocles (charioteer)Hierocles was reputedly a favorite and lover of the Roman emperor Elagabalus. He was from Caria and was at some point enslaved and became a charioteer in the service of Elagabalus...
, 2nd-3rd century, presumed lover and court official of the emperor Elagabalus - Sossianus HieroclesSossianus HieroclesSossianus Hierocles was a late Roman aristocrat and office-holder. He served as a praeses in Syria under Diocletian at some time in the 290s. He was then made vicarius of some district, perhaps Oriens until 303, when he was transferred to Bithynia...
, 3rd-4th century, proconsul of Bithynia and Alexandria during the reign of Diocletian - Hierocles, possibly 4th century, co-editor of PhilogelosPhilogelosPhilogelos is the oldest existing collection of jokes.The collection is written in Greek, and the language used indicates that it may have been written in the 4th century AD, according to William Berg, an American classics professor. It is attributed to Hierokles and Philagrios, about whom little...
- Hierocles of AlexandriaHierocles of AlexandriaHierocles of Alexandria was a Greek Neoplatonist writer who was active around AD 430.He studied under Plutarch at Athens in the early 5th century, and taught for some years in his native city. He seems to have been banished from Alexandria and to have taken up his abode in Constantinople, where he...
, 5th century, Greek Neoplatonist writer - Hierocles (author of Synecdemus)Hierocles (author of Synecdemus)Hierocles or Hierokles was a Byzantine geographer of the sixth century and the attributed author of the Synecdemus or Synekdemos, which contains a table of administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire and lists of the cities of each...
, 6th century, Byzantine geographer, author of the Synecdemus - Hierocles, a character in the play PeacePeace (play)Peace is an Athenian Old Comedy written and produced by the Greek playwright Aristophanes. It won second prize at the City Dionysia where it was staged just a few days before the ratification of the Peace of Nicias , which promised to end the ten year old Peloponnesian War...
by Aristophanes