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Heraclidae

American  
[her-uh-klahy-dee] / ˌhɛr əˈklaɪ di /
Or Heracleidae

noun

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


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The Achaei originally inhabited the neighborhood of Argos; when driven thence by the Heraclidae, they retired among the Ionians, expelled the natives, and seized their thirteen cities, forming the Achaean League.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

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

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

How much of the air and sun does this form take from the descendant of the Heraclidae?'

From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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

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