Heracleidae · Atlas

spoken of as

1 expression

The Heracleidae1 mention

Moreover, they were styled the saviors of the sons of Heracles, who himself was the savior of the rest of mankind, when they arrived in this land as suppliants, fleeing before Eurystheus.

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in the texts

The Funeral SpeechClassical · Greek

The sons of Heracles, who fled to Athens as suppliants from Eurystheus and were saved by the Athenians' ancestors.

Moreover, they were styled the saviors of the sons of Heracles, who himself was the savior of the rest of mankind, when they arrived in this land as suppliants, fleeing before Eurystheus.

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OrationsImperial · Greek

The royal dynasty of Sparta claiming descent from Heracles

Do you, then, not consider it kingship, that of the Heracleidae in Lacedaemon, who reigned so long a time?

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PythianClassical · Greek

The descendants of Heracles, ancestral kin of the Dorian settlers under whose laws Aetna is founded.

The descendants of Pamphylus, and, truly, of the Heracleidae also, dwelling beneath the cliffs of Taÿgetus, are willing to abide forever as Dorians under the ordinances of Aegimius.

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Alcibiades 1Classical · Greek

The royal clan descended from Hercules, from whom Spartan kings alone may be legitimately born.

Or have you not observed how great are the advantages of the Spartan kings, and how their wives are kept under statutory ward of the ephors, in order that every possible precaution may be taken against the king being born of any but the Heracleidae?

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