Heraclidae

American  

[her-uh-klahy-dee] / ˌhɛr əˈklaɪ di /

Or Heracleidae

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

From Polity Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Dakyns, Henry Graham

The Heraclidae, who thus became practically masters of Peloponnesus, proceeded to distribute its territory among themselves by lot.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

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

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

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