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

Although some hold opinion that this ceremony is retained in memory of the Heraclidae, who were thus entertained and brought up by the Athenians.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

Aristarchus says he lived about the period of the Ionian emigration; this happened sixty years after the return of the Heraclidae.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

Hence this migration is called the Return of the Heraclidae.

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

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