Heraclidae

American  

[her-uh-klahy-dee] / ˌhɛr əˈklaɪ di /

Or Heracleidae

noun

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

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Example Sentences

But that he was of great antiquity may be gathered from a passage in Xenophon, where he makes him contemporary with the Heraclidae.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

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

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 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

Aristarchus says he lived about the period of the Ionian emigration; this happened sixty years after the return of the Heraclidae.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch