Heraclidae
Americannoun
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The Heraclidae repaired their ships, sailed from Naupactus to Antirrhium, and thence to Rhium in Peloponnesus.
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The Heraclidae, who thus became practically masters of Peloponnesus, proceeded to distribute its territory among themselves by lot.
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The Heraclidae ruled in Lacedaemon till 221 B.C., but disappeared much earlier in the other countries.
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This conquest of Peloponnesus by the Dorians, commonly called the “Return of the Heraclidae,” is represented as the recovery by the descendants of Heracles of the rightful inheritance of their hero ancestor and his sons.
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It is noticeable that there is no mention of these Heraclidae or their invasion in Homer or Hesiod.
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