- The
Heracleidae (/hɛrəˈklaɪdiː/;
Ancient Gr****: Ἡρακλεῖδαι) or
Heraclids /ˈhɛrəklɪdz/ were the
numerous descendants of
Heracles holding (Hercules), especially...
- took
possession of the
Peloponnese in an
event called the
Return of the
Heracleidae (Ancient Gr****: Ἐπιστροφὴ τῶν Ἡρακλειδῶν). Nineteenth-century classical...
- and
Heracleidae) is an
Athenian tragedy by
Euripides that was
first performed c. 430 BC. It
follows the
children of
Heracles (known as the
Heracleidae) as...
- 10th-century
Byzantine encyclopedia the Suda and by Zenobius. In the
Heracleidae of Euripides,
Macaria ("she who is blessed") is a
daughter of Heracles...
- and one of the
Heracleidae or
Heraclids (the
numerous descendants of Heracles,
especially the
descendants of Hyllus—other
Heracleidae included Macaria...
- protohistoric.
Years with no
dates (only "c.") are
unknown The
Spartan kings as
Heracleidae claimed descent from Heracles, who
through his
mother was
descended from...
- had
caused him. He
attempted to
destroy Heracles' many
children (the
Heracleidae, led by Hyllus), who fled to Athens. He
attacked the city but was soundly...
-
Alcmene was
walking from
Argos to
Thebes when she died at Megara. The
Heracleidae fell into
disagreement about where to take Alcmene's body, with some...
-
lightning (or shot by Apollo) and the
fleet destro****,
because one of the
Heracleidae had
slain an
Acarnanian soothsayer. The oracle,
being again consulted...
-
greatest of the Gr**** heroes, the
ancestor of
royal clans who
claimed to be
Heracleidae (Ἡρακλεῖδαι), and a
champion of the
Olympian order against chthonic monsters...
