Heraclidae
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The Heraclidae ruled in Lacedaemon till 221 B.C., but disappeared much earlier in the other countries.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
Although some hold opinion that this ceremony is retained in memory of the Heraclidae, who were thus entertained and brought up by the Athenians.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
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
Aristarchus says he lived about the period of the Ionian emigration; this happened sixty years after the return of the Heraclidae.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
But that he was of great antiquity may be gathered from a passage in Xenophon, where he makes him contemporary with the Heraclidae.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
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