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

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 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

Such a scheme, undertaken by men who had shared with one another toils and dangers, sanctioned by the Delphian oracle, under the guidance of the Heraclidae, seemed to have a promise of permanence.

From Laws by Jowett, Benjamin

Mango Capac, the son of the sun, is as authentic a founder of a royal race, as the progenitor of the Heraclidae.

From Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Walpole, Horace

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

From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John