Heraclidæ

pl. ( Anc. Hist.) The descendants of Hercules, who, after his death, B. c. 1209, were expelled from the Peloponnesus, and took refuge in Attica. The return of the Heraclidæ, or the Dorian Migration, B. С. 1104, form is a celebrated epoch in ancient chronology, as marking the transition from the heroic or fabulous ages to the period of authentic history. Her a clit us, a celebrated Greek philosopher of Ephesus, lived in the 69th Olympiad, about 500 B. C. The principle of his theory is the recognition of the fire of life, and the ethereal element of wisdom, as the ground of all visible existences. Only fragments of his works have been preserved, which are written in the symbolic or transcendental manner of the Pythagoreans. Heraclius, Emperor of the East, from 610 to 641.His son, HERACLIUS CONST AN TINE, survived him only three months, being poisoned, it is said, by his mother-inlaw, Martin a.