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Heracles holding Hyllus with Deianira nearby, as the centaur Nessus pleads for his life (Pompeii fresco) Heracles with his son Telephus, one of the Heracleidae. The Heracleidae (/ h ɛr ə ˈ k l aɪ d iː /; Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλεῖδαι) or Heraclids / ˈ h ɛr ə k l ɪ d z / were the numerous descendants of Heracles, especially applied in a narrower sense to the descendants of ...
Heraclides, Heracleides or Herakleides (Greek: Ἡρακλείδης) in origin was any individual of the legendary clan of the Heracleidae, the mythological patronymic applying to persons descended from Hercules.
Herodotus says the Heraclids ruled Lydia for 505 years through 22 generations with son succeeding father all down the line from Agron to Candaules. [8] While Candaules was the last of the Heraclids to reign at Sardis, Herodotus says Agron was the first and thereby implies that Sardis was already the capital of Lydia in Maeonian times. [7]
Aletes (Ancient Greek: Ἀλήτης) was a son of Hippotes, of Dorian ancestry, and a fifth-generation descendant of Heracles. [1] He is said to have defeated in battle the Corinthians, taken possession of Corinth, and to have expelled the Sisyphids [2] thirty years after the first invasion of the Peloponnesus by the Heraclids.
Heraclides Ponticus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλείδης ὁ Ποντικός Herakleides; c. 390 BC – c. 310 BC) [1] was a Greek philosopher and astronomer who was born in Heraclea Pontica, now Karadeniz Ereğli, Turkey, and migrated to Athens.
Eurystheus accepts his fate and tells them a prophecy of how his spirit will protect the city from the descendants of Heracles's children if they slay and bury him, "And you shall have a double profit from me: by dying I shall bring benefit to you and harm to the Heraclids." [11] Eurystheus is then escorted away to be executed and the play ends.
The end of the war must be 379 years from the return of the Heraclids. [6] According to Isaac Newton, also a classical scholar, the nine kings reigned an average of 42 years each, which can be used as an estimator of the dates. The less senior line has a slightly lower mortality rate than the senior line.
The Heraclids, managed to rule successively from 1185 to 687 BC despite a growing presence of Greek influences along the Mediterranean coast. As Greek cities such as Smyrna , Colophon , and Ephesus rose, the Heraclids became weaker and weaker.