Heracleia
place · 2 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Heracleia, in Trachis · Heracleot merchants · Heracleots · city of the Heracleots
in the texts
Anabasis
Coastal city with abundant ships; its people participate in efforts to move the army away by sea.
Upon hearing this statement the merchants carried it back to their cities;
and from Heracleia on there is no difficulty either by land or by water, for there are ships in abundance at Heracleia.
After that, when the Heracleots learned that it had been voted to sail away, and that Xenophon himself had put the question to vote, they did send the ships, but in the matter of the money they had promised to Timasion and Thorax they turned out to be deceivers.
Hellenica
A walled city at a narrow pass destroyed by Jason.
Upon arriving at Heracleia, however, he destroyed the walled city of the Heracleots, manifestly having no fear that when this passage-way had been thus thrown open anyone would march against his own dominion, but rather making provision that none should seize Heracleia, situated as it was at a narrow pass, and block his way if he wanted to march to any place in Greece.
At about the same time, also, the colonists of Heracleia, in Trachis, were betrayed by the Achaeans in a battle where both peoples were drawn up against their enemies, the Oetaeans, and as a result about seven hundred of the Heracleots perished, together with the Lacedaemonian governor, Labotas.