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Heraclidae

American  
[her-uh-klahy-dee] / ˌhɛr əˈklaɪ di /
Or Heracleidae

noun

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


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The Heraclidae was undoubtedly written with a similar view in respect to Lacedaemon.

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John

The Heraclidae is a very poor piece; its conclusion is singularly bald.

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John

To me, as one of the Heraclidae, was assigned the honour of tracking and destroying him.

From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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

The Heraclidae and the Dorians now divided between them the dominions of Tisamenus and of the other Achaean princes.

From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir