Heraclidae
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But the affair of the Heraclidae took place eighty years after the destruction of Troy.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
Lysander's father is said to have been Aristoclitus, who was not indeed of the royal family, but yet of the stock of the Heraclidae.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
The legendary account of the conquest of Peloponnesus ran as follows:—The Dorians were led by the Heraclidae, or descendants of the mighty hero Hercules.
From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir
Crates reports that he lived before the return of the Heraclidae, so he was not altogether eighty years distant from the Trojan War.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
The Heraclidae is a very poor piece; its conclusion is singularly bald.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John
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