Definitions for Heraclidae

Heraclidae Her·a·cli·dae

Spelling: [her-uh-klahy-dee]
IPA: /ˌhɛr əˈklaɪ di/

Heraclidae is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 549 anagrams from letters in Heraclidae (aacdeehilr).

Definitions for Heraclidae

noun

  1. a drama (429? b.c.) by Euripides.
  2. a person claiming descent from Hercules, especially one of the Dorian aristocracy of Sparta.

Examples for Heraclidae

He meets and slays Hyllus, and the Heraclidae engage not to renew the invasion for one hundred years.

The point is clear so far, that Lycurgus himself is said to have lived in the days of the Heraclidae.

We now pause at Elis, which had also felt the revolution of the Heraclidae, and was possessed by their comrades the Aetolians.

The return of the Heraclidae was the true consummation of the Hellenic revolution.

This play is very like the Heraclidae but adds a new feature; drama begins to be used for political purposes.

It is noticeable that there is no mention of these Heraclidae or their invasion in Homer or Hesiod.

The three seem to be three earliest of the extant plays; they are also—if we count the Heraclidae as mutilated—the three shortest.

The return of the Heraclidae occasioned consequences of which the most important were the least immediate.

But the affair of the Heraclidae took place eighty years after the destruction of Troy.

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

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