Heraclidae
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Such are the main features of the legend of the Return of the Heraclidae.
From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir
The fruit of his labours was his Ἱστορίαι in 29 books, the first universal history, beginning with the return of the Heraclidae to Peloponnesus, as the first well-attested historical event.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
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
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
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
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