Heraclea
“in Trachis”
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
in the texts
Apollodorus Against Callippus
The city of the Heracleotes, invoked in Callippus's claimed public role.
for I must of necessity look after the affairs of all the men of Heraclea.
History of the Peloponnesian War
A new Lacedaemonian colony founded near Thermopylae in Trachis, whose early promise quickly declines through external pressure and mismanagement.
five hundred of whom were from Heraclea, their newly founded city in Trachis.
About this time the Lacedaemonians prepared to found their colony of Heraclea, in Trachiniae, with the following purpose.
When they had established themselves in the country, they fortified anew the city which is now called Heraclea, distant about forty stades from Thermopylae, and twenty from the sea.
Symposium
Place associated with the unnamed stranger introduced to Socrates.
And just recently, you remember, you introduced the stranger from Heraclea to me, after arousing my keen interest in him by your commendations.