Heraclidae
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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
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
The Heraclidae was undoubtedly written with a similar view in respect to Lacedaemon.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by Black, John
The three seem to be three earliest of the extant plays; they are also—if we count the Heraclidae as mutilated—the three shortest.
From The Rhesus of Euripedes by Euripedes
This is the portion of historic truth contained in the myth of the Return of the Heraclidae, the descendants of Hercules, to the old kingdom of their ancestor.
From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park
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