Heraclea

American  

[her-uh-klee-uh] / ˌhɛr əˈkli ə /

noun

1. an ancient city in S Italy, near the Gulf of Taranto: Roman defeat 280 b.c.

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Heraclea British  

/ ˌhɛrəˈkliːə /

noun

1. any of several ancient Greek colonies. The most famous is the S Italian site where Pyrrhus of Epirus defeated the Romans (280 _bc )

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Example Sentences

Just outside town, we toured the amazing Heraclea Lyncestis, a once-thriving Roman settlement along the Via Egnatia, a trading road built by the Romans in the 2nd century B.C.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2016

Venues will include Wittenberg in Germany, the Roman theatres of Philippopolis in Bulgaria and Heraclea in Macedonia, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington and the Mayan ruins of Copan in Honduras.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2014

Cleandridas exiled from Sparta, founds Heraclea with Tarentines, b.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried

And Numenius of Heraclea mentions it, in his treatise on Fishing, speaking as follows:— The fish that lives in seaweed, the alphestes, The scorpion also with its rosy meat.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

Niebuhr, in the 3rd vol. of his Roman history, considers the Cleandridas, who took a part in the foundation of Heraclea, as the same person as Leandrias the Spartan, who, according to Diod.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried