Heraclid
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Who those Heraclid princes were exactly is obscure.
From The Ancient East by Hogarth, D. G. (David George)
The balance of power saved Sparta, when the two other Heraclid states fell into disorder.
From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin
The wrestling went to Carus the Heraclid, who won the garland from Odysseus.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)
Like the old Heraclid colony, we are fortunate in escaping the abolition of debts and the distribution of land, which are difficult and dangerous questions.
From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin
The history of Macedonia is obscure till the time of the Persian wars; but its kings claimed an Heraclid origin.
From Ancient States and Empires by Lord, John
The three seem to be three earliest of the extant plays; they are also—if we count the Heraclidae as mutilated—the three shortest.
From The Rhesus of Euripedes by Euripedes
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
By descent, indeed, the very last kings of Sparta were Heraclidae too; but he seems in that place to speak of the first and more immediate successors of Hercules.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
The fruit of his labours was his Ἱστορίαι in 29 books, the first universal history, beginning with the return of the Heraclidae to Peloponnesus, as the first well-attested historical event.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
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
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