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Heraclidae

or Her·a·clei·dae

[ her-uh-klahy-dee ]

noun

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


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The point is clear so far, that Lycurgus himself is said to have lived in the days of the Heraclidae.

This play is very like the Heraclidae but adds a new feature; drama begins to be used for political purposes.

The three seem to be three earliest of the extant plays; they are also—if we count the Heraclidae as mutilated—the three shortest.

The return of the Heraclidae was the true consummation of the Hellenic revolution.

But the affair of the Heraclidae took place eighty years after the destruction of Troy.

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