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Heraclidae

American  
[her-uh-klahy-dee] / ˌhɛr əˈklaɪ di /
Or Heracleidae

noun

  1. a drama (429? b.c.) by Euripides.


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Such are the main features of the legend of the Return of the Heraclidae.

From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir

Such a scheme, undertaken by men who had shared with one another toils and dangers, sanctioned by the Delphian oracle, under the guidance of the Heraclidae, seemed to have a promise of permanence.

From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin

To me, as one of the Heraclidae, was assigned the honour of tracking and destroying him.

From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

It is noticeable that there is no mention of these Heraclidae or their invasion in Homer or Hesiod.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

The Heraclidae and the Dorians now divided between them the dominions of Tisamenus and of the other Achaean princes.

From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir

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