of death DEFAULTSORT HeraclidesPonticus Category 390 BC births Category 310 BC deaths Category 4th ... Pontiko fr H raclide du Pont it Eraclide Pontico ht HeraclidesPonticus hu Pontoszi H rakleid sz nl HeraclidesPonticus ja pl Heraklides z Pontu pt Her clides do Ponto ru ...About the philosopher the former butterfly genus Papilio the historian Heracleides of Cyme HeraclidesPonticus lang grc c. 390 BC c. 310 BC ref Tiziano Dorandi, Chapter 2 Chronology ... Heraklides of Ponticus, The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography ref He is also frequently hailed as the originator of the heliocentric theory, although this is doubted. Life Heraclides father was Euthyphron, ref name isbn0 19 814021 5 cite book author Gottschalk, H. B. title Heraclides ... in the charge of Heraclides. Heraclides was nearly elected successor to Speusippus as head of the academy ... Thought Like the Pythagoreans Hicetas and Ecphantus , Heraclides proposed that the apparent daily ... and planets in their respective spheres might also be fixed. Simplicius says that Heraclides ... From Thales to Euclid , Oxford Clarendon Press, 1921 , pp. 312, 316 7. ref have proposed that Heraclides ... has shown that nowhere in the ancient literature mentioning Heraclides of Pontus is there a clear ..., Heraclides and Heliocentrism Texts, Diagrams, and Interpretations, Journal for the History of Astronomy , 23 1992 233 260, page 256. ref A punning on his name, dubbing him Heraclides Pompicus ... Dionysius the Deserter composed plays and forged them under the name of Sophocles . Heraclides was deceived ... Laertius, V, Heraclides, 92 Moreover, Dionysius, called the Deserter, or as some say Spentharus, wrote a tragedy called Parthenopaeus, and forged the name of Sophocles to it. And Heraclides was so much ..., and they formed the name of Panculus, who was a friend of Dionysius. And as Heraclides still refused ... s caught indeed, but only after a time. And he added, Heraclides knows nothing of letters, and has no shame ... more details
Heraclides , Heracleides or Herakleides Greek lang grc may refer to Heracleides of Cyme floruit fl. 350 BC , a little attested historian Heraclides of Aenus , one of Plato s students Heraclides of Erythrae 1st century BC , a physician of Erythrae in Ionia Heraclides Lembus , a philosopher HeraclidesPonticus 387 312 BC , a philosopher Heraclides of Tarentum c. 2nd century BC , a physician of the Empiric school Heraclides son of Antiochus general of Alexander the Great Heraclides son of Argaeus admiral of Alexander the Great Heraclides painter Heraclides Macedonian painter of 2nd c.BC wiktionary hndis ... more details
Promontorium Heraclides is a raised mountainous cape situated in Mare Imbrium on the near side of the Moon . Its selenographic coordinates are 40.3 N, 33.2 W and it is 50 km in diameter. It marks the western edge of the bay of Sinus Iridum . Promontorium Heraclides is named after HeraclidesPonticus , a Greek philosopher and astronomer. The Soviet lunar probe Luna 17 landed about 30 km from Promontorium Heraclides on November 17, 1970. ref cite book last Brunier first Serge coauthors Thierry Legault title New Atlas of the Moon publisher Firefly Books year 2006 page 91 isbn 978 1 55407 173 9 ref References Reflist moon stub Category Mountains on the Moon ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Taxobox regnum Animal ia phylum Arthropod a classis Insect a ordo Hemiptera familia Nabidae genus Nabis genus Nabis species Nabis ponticus Nabis ponticus is a type of damsel bug in the family Nabidae . ref cite web url http zipcodezoo.com Animals N Nabis ponticus title Nabis ponticus publisher ZipCode Zoo ref References reflist Hemiptera stub Category Nabidae ... more details
Ponticus was a fifteen year old boy martyred in 177 AD during the persecution in Lyons with a group of other Christians, including Saint Pothinus and Saint Blandina . He is venerated by the Roman Catholic Church as a martyr . ref http www.catholic.org saints saint.php?saint id 5560 ref Notes reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ponticus, Saint ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 177 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Ponticus, Saint Category 177 deaths Category Child saints Category 2nd century Christian martyr saints ... more details
Image Evagrius.jpg frame right Evagrius Ponticus left , John of Sinai, and an unknown saint. 17th century icon. expand lead date April 2012 Evagrius Ponticus lang el lang grc , Evagrius of Pontus , also called Evagrius the Solitary 345 399 AD was a Christian monk and ascetic. One of the rising stars in the late fourth century church, he was well known as a keen thinker, a polished speaker, and a gifted writer. He left a promising ecclesiastical career in Constantinople, traveled to Jerusalem, and there in 383 became a monk at the monastery of Tyrannius Rufinus Rufinus and Melania the Elder . He then went to Egypt and spent the remaining years of his life in Nitria and Kellia , marked by years of asceticism and writing. He was a disciple of several influential contemporary church leaders, including Basil of Caesarea , Gregory of Nazianzus , and Macarius of Egypt . He was teacher of others, including John Cassian and Palladius of Galatia Palladius . Life He was born into a Christian ... The Sapphire Light of the Mind The Skemmata of Evagrius Ponticus journal Theological Studies year ..., Jeremy. Evagrius Ponticus Ad Monachos. Paulist Press, 2003. Evagrius. Evagrius Ponticus . Translated ..., W. & Fitzgerald, R.R. 2001 . The Sapphire Light of the Mind The Skemmata of Evagrius Ponticus ... Faber and Faber, 1979. Tsakiridis, George . Evagrius Ponticus and Cognitive Science A Look at Moral ... Ponticus http evagriusponticus.net Guide to Evagrius Ponticus , authoritative reference work includes ... http www.ldysinger.com Evagrius 00a start.htm St. Evagrius Ponticus A collection of many ... based discussion group http www.orthodoxwiki.org Evagrius Ponticus Orthodox Wiki article http ... Graeca with analytical indexes Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ponticus, Evagrius ... DEFAULTSORT Ponticus, Evagrius Category 345 births Category 399 deaths Category Hesychasm Category ... le Pontique it Evagrio Pontico ka la Evagrius Ponticus nl Evagrius van Pontus pl Ewagriusz ... more details
For other uses, see HeraclidesHeraclides or Heracleides Greek language Greek lang grc was a Macedon Macedonian painter, who was at first merely a Marine art marine painter of sea and ships, but afterwards acquired some distinction as a painter in encaustic . He lived in the time of Perseus of Macedon Perseus , after whose fall he went to Athens 168 BC . References http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 1498.html 4 Heraclides artists Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Natural History Pliny xxxv. 11. s. 40. 30, 42. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Heraclides Batman ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Heraclides Batman Category Ancient Macedonian painters Category Ancient Greek painters Category Marine artists Category 2nd century BC Macedonians Category Ancient Macedonians in Athens Category Roman Athens Greece painter stub AncientGreece bio stub ca Her clides pintor el ... more details
Heraclides Lembus or Herakleides Lembos was an Ancient Greek philosophical writer. Heraclides was an Egyptian civil servant who lived during the reign of Ptolemy VI Philometor 2nd century BC . ref name suda Suda, Heraclides 462 ref He is said to have negotiated the treaty that ended Antiochus IV s invasion of Egypt in 169 BC. ref name suda According to Diogenes La rtius he wrote an epitome of Sotion s Successions of Philosophers , ref Diogenes La rtius v. 79 viii. 7 x. 1 ref and an epitome of Satyrus the Peripatetic Satyrus Lives . ref Diogenes La rtius, viii. 40 ix. 26 ref He also epitomized Hermippus of Smyrna Hermippus s On Lawgivers . ref POxy. 1367 ref Excerpts he made of works of Aristotle give surviving fragments of lost works of the latter. These were published in 1847 as Heraclidis politiarum quae extant , by F. G. Schneidewin . References Heraclidis Lembi excerpta politiarum 1971 , editor and translator Mervin R. Dilts Miroslav Marcovich , Heraclidis Lembi Excerpta Politiarum , The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 96, No. 1 Spring, 1975 , pp. 16 18 Notes reflist Category 2nd century BC writers Category Ancient Greek biographers Category Hellenistic era philosophers from Africa Category Ptolemaic court el es Her clides Lembos it Eraclide Lembo fi Herakleides Lemboslainen ... more details
Heraclides of Aenus Thrace Aenus was one of Plato s students. ref Diogenes La rtius , iii. 46 ref Around 360 BC, he and his brother Python of Aenus Python assassinated Cotys I Odrysian Cotys I , the ruler of Thrace . ref Aristotle , Politics , v. 10, 1311b20 2 Plutarch , Adv. Col. 1126c ref References reflist Ancient Greece bio stub Category 4th century BC Greek people Category 4th century BC philosophers Category Academic philosophers Category Ancient Thracian Greeks Category Plato ... more details
Heraclides of Tarentum , c. 3rd 2nd century BC , was a Ancient Greek medicine Greek physician of the Empiric school who wrote commentaries on the works of Hippocrates . He came from Tarentum , was a pupil of Mantias , ref Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. , ii. 1, vol. xiii. ref and probably lived in the 3rd or 2nd century BC, somewhat later than Apollonius physician Apollonius Empiricus and Glaucias physician Glaucias . ref Celsus, De Med. , i. praef. ref He belonged to the Empiric school , ref Celsus, De Med. , i. praef. Galen, De Meth. Med. , ii. 7, vol. x. ref and wrote some works on Materia medica , which are very frequently quoted by Galen , but of which only a few fragments remain. Galen speaks of him in high terms of praise, saying that he was an author who could be entirely depended upon, as he wrote in his works only what he had himself found from his own experience to be correct. ref Galen, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. , iv. 7, vol. xiii. ref He was also one of the first persons who wrote a commentary on all the works in the Hippocratic Corpus . ref Galen, Comment. in Hippocr. De Humor. , i. prooem. 24, vol. xvi. ref He is several times quoted by Caelius Aurelianus and other ancient authors. Notes reflist SmithDGRBM Category 2nd century BC Greek people Category Ancient Greek physicians ca Her clides de T rent metge de Herakleides von Tarent el es Her clides de Tarento la Heraclides Tarentinus ... more details
Heraclides of Erythrae , 1st century BC , a physician of Erythrae in Ionia , who was a pupil of Chrysermus , ref name galen1 Galen, De Differ. Puls. , iv. 10, vol. viii. ref a fellow pupil of Apollonius physician Apollonius , and a contemporary of Strabo in the 1st century BC. ref Strabo, xiv. ref Galen calls him the most distinguished of the pupils of Chrysermus, ref name galen1 and mentions a work written by him, On the school of Herophilus lang el , consisting of at least seven books. He wrote a commentary on the sixth book of Hippocrates , De Morbis Vulgaribus , ref Galen, Comment. in Hippocr. Epid. VI. , i. praef. vol. xvii. pt. i ref but neither this nor any of his writings survive. Notes reflist SmithDGRBM Category 1st century BC Greek people Category Ancient Greek physicians Category Ionians ca Her clides d Eritrea el ... more details
For other persons with the same name, see HeraclidesHeraclides or Heracleides , son of Antiochus , was Hipparchus cavalry officer hipparch of the ile of Hetairoi from Bottiaea , from the Triballian campaign of Alexander the Great in 335 BC until the battle of Gaugamela . References Who s Who in the Age of Alexander the Great by Waldemar Heckel ISBN 978 1 4051 1210 9 Category Alexander the Great Category Ancient Macedonian generals Alexander s Generals ... more details
For other uses, see HeraclidesHeraclides ,son of Argaeus was an admiral sent by Alexander, shortly before his death, to construct ships on the Caspian Sea , with a view to a voyage of discovery, similar to that of Nearchus . Whether the task was ever undertaken or completed is not known. Patrocles geographer Patrocles a general of Seleucus I is reported to have undertaken an exploration on the Caspian Sea. References Who s Who in the Age of Alexander the Great by Waldemar Heckel ISBN 978 1 4051 1210 9 Ancient Greece bio stub Category Ancient Macedonian admirals Category Admirals of Alexander the Great ... more details
Heraclid can refer to a number of things Heracleidae , one who had or claimed descent from the mythological Heracles Ioan Iacob Heraclid , a Greek soldier and ruler of Moldavia in the 16th century See also Heraclides Ponticus , a Greek philosopher who lived in the 4th century BC Heraclides of Aenus , a student of Plato Heraclides painter , an ancient Greek painter of the 2nd century BC disambig ... more details
for Menedemus of Eretria, the founder of the Eretrian School of Philosophy Menedemus Menedemus of Pyrrha, Lesbos Pyrrha , Lesbos , lived c. 350 BC , was a member of Plato s Platonic Academy Academy , during the time of Speusippus . Upon the death of Speusippus in 339 BC , an election was held for the next scholarch of the Academy. Menedemus and Heraclides Ponticus Heraclides narrowly lost to Xenocrates . Menedemus left the Academy, and set up a school of his own. ref Philodemus , Academicorum historia vii Philochorus , Atthis , http www.attalus.org translate philochorus.html 224 Fr.224 ref Notes Reflist Platonists Philosopher stub Category Academic philosophers Category Ancient Greek philosophers Category 4th century BC Greek people Category 4th century BC philosophers de Menedemos von Pyrrha fi Menedemos Pyrrhalainen it Menedemo di Pirra ... more details
Other persons Hermippus Hermippus lang el of Smyrna , a Peripatetic school Peripatetic philosopher, surnamed by the ancient writers the Callimachian lang el , from which it may be inferred that he was a disciple of Callimachus about the middle of the 3rd century BC, while the fact of his having written the life of Chrysippus proves that he lived to about the end of the century. His writings seem to have been of very great importance and value. ref Josephus, Contra Apionem i. 22 Jerome, De Viris Illustribus Jerome De Viris Illustribus Praef. ref They are repeatedly referred to by the ancient writers, under many titles, of which, however, most, if not all, seem to have been chapters of his great biographical work, which is often quoted under the title of Lives Bioi . The work contained the biographies of a great many ancient figures, including orators, poets, historians, and philosophers. It contained the earliest known biography of Aristotle , as well as philosophers such as Pythagoras , Empedocles , Heraclitus , Democritus , Zeno of Elea Zeno , Socrates , Plato , Antisthenes , Diogenes of Sinope Diogenes , Stilpo , Epicurus , Theophrastus , Heraclides Ponticus Heraclides , Demetrius Phalereus , and Chrysippus . The work has been lost, but many later Lives extensively quote it. Bibliography Hermippos of Smyrna Critical edition and English translation of the extant frangments by J. Bollans e, Leiden, Brill, 1999. Fritz Wehrli, Hermippos des Kallimacheer , Basel Stuttgart Schwabe & Co., 1974 editions of fragments, superseded by Bollans e 1999 . Jan Bollans e, Hermippos of Smyrna and his biographical writings. A reappraisal , Leuven, Peeters, 1999. Notes reflist DEFAULTSORT Hermippus Of Smyrna Category Ancient Greek biographers Category Hellenistic era philosophers from Anatolia Category Peripatetic philosophers Category 3rd century BC Greek people Category 3rd century BC philosophers Category Ancient Smyrnaeans Category People from Izmir Catego ... more details
for other people named Hicetas Hicetas disambiguation Hicetas lang grc or lang grc ca. 400 BC &ndash ca. 335 BC was a Ancient Greeks Greek philosopher of the Pythagoras Pythagorean School . He was born in Syracuse, Italy Syracuse . Like his fellow Pythagorean Ecphantus and the Academic Heraclides Ponticus , he believed that the daily movement of permanent stars was caused by the rotation of the Earth around its Axis of rotation axis . ref Theophrastus ap Cicero , Acad. Quaest. ii. 39. Diogenes La rtius viii. 85 says that some ascribed this doctrine to Hicetas, while others attributed it to Philolaus . ref Notes Reflist Greek astronomy Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Hicetas ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH Category 400 BC births Category 335 BC deaths Category 4th century BC Greek people Category 4th century BC philosophers Category Ancient Greek astronomers Category Ancient Syracusians Category Pythagoreans of Magna Graecia Ancient Greece bio stub greece scientist stub Euro astronomer stub ca Hicetes fil sof de Hiketas von Syrakus Pythagoreer el it Iceta di Siracusa filosofo pt Hicetas ru sl Hiket sh Hiketa ... more details
About the historian the former butterfly genus Papilio the philosopher HeraclidesPonticus Heracleides or Heraclides of Cyme Aeolis Cyme floruit fl. 350 B.C. is a little attested Ancient Greek literature Greek historian who wrote a multivolume Persica , or history of Persia , not extant. ref Albin Lesky, A History of Greek Literature , translated by Cornelis de Heer and James WIllis Hackett, 1966 , p. 628 http books.google.com books?id QKiIwZxoH gC&pg PA628&lpg PA628&dq 22Heraclides of Cyme 22&source web&ots dmBtR10I3 &sig wMYjEO9z93RUi8N1gqlb8KWLxQ&hl en&sa X&oi book result&resnum 4&ct result online. ref Fragments from the Persica are preserved primarily by Athenaeus and describe the customs of the Persian court. Heracleides was himself a subject of Persia under the Achaemenid Empire . ref George Cawkwell , The Greek Wars Oxford University Press , 2006 , pp. 18 19 http books.google.com books?id xufiuEjgBjoC&pg PA18&lpg PA18&dq 22Heraclides of Cyme 22&source web&ots dGg 0v 22e&sig zq4uGI4If kq577ZS5wgByxftfs&hl en&sa X&oi book result&resnum 18&ct result PPA18,M1 online see also Thomas Harrison, Greeks and Barbarians Taylor & Francis, 2001 , p. 209, note 16 http books.google.com books?id 3OBCsKqindoC&pg PA209&lpg PA209&dq 22Heracleides of Cyme 22&source web&ots nOUb7u7CiW&sig YjKuAoFneICBfe15kPpAAMcfFYg&hl en&sa X&oi book result&resnum 11&ct result PPA209,M1 online. ref References Reflist For further reading For discussion of passages from the Persica , see Pierre Bryant, From Cyrus to Alexander A History of the Persian Empire , translated by Peter Daniels EIsenbrauns, 2002 , limited preview http books.google.com books?id lxQ9W6F1oSYC&printsec frontcover&dq intitle From intitle Cyrus intitle to intitle Alexander inauthor Briant&lr &as brr 0 online search Heraclides of Cyme External links Josef Wieseh fer , Heracleides of Cyme, Encyclopedia Iranica http www.iranica.com newsite index.isc?Article http www.iranica.com newsite articles unicode v12f2 v12f2037.html online Category ... more details
Chamaeleon or Chameleon , lang el c. 350 c. 275 BC , was a Peripatetic school Peripatetic philosopher of Heraclea Pontica . He was one of the immediate disciples of Aristotle . He wrote works on several of the ancient Greek poets, namely On Anacreon On Sappho On Simonides of Ceos Simonides On Thespis On Aeschylus On Lasus On Pindar On Stesichorus He also wrote on the Iliad , and on Comedy . In this last work he treated, among other subjects, of the dances of comedy. ref Athenaeus, xiv. 628 ref This work is quoted by Athenaeus ref Athenaeus, ix. 374 ref by the title , which is also the title of a work by the Peripatetic philosopher Eumelus philosopher Eumelus . It would seem also that he wrote on Hesiod , for Diogenes La rtius says, that Chamaeleon accused Heraclides Ponticus of having stolen from him his work concerning Homer and Hesiod. ref Diogenes La rtius, v. 6. 92. ref The above works were probably both biographical and critical. He also wrote works entitled , and , and some moral treatises, which was also ascribed to Theophrastus , , and . Of all his works only a few fragments are preserved by Athenaeus and other ancient writers. Notes reflist Peripatetics Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Chamaeleon ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Chamaeleon Category 3rd century BC Greek people Category 4th century BC writers Category 4th century BC philosophers Category 4th century BC births Category 3rd century BC deaths Category Ancient Greek writers Category Ancient Pontic Greeks Category Hellenistic era philosophers from Anatolia Category People from Bithynia Category Peripatetic philosophers ca Camale fil sof fi Khamaileon ... more details
About Dionysius the Stoic philosopher from Heraclea Dionysius the Tyrant of Heraclea Dionysius of Heraclea Dionysius the Renegade lang el c. 330 c. 250 ref Tiziano Dorandi, Chapter 2 Chronology , in Algra et al. 1999 The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy , page 50. Cambridge. ref , also known as Dionysius of Heraclea Pontica Heraclea , was a Stoicism Stoic philosopher and pupil of Zeno of Citium who, late in life, abandoned Stoicism when he became afflicted by terrible pain. Life He was the son of Theophantus. In early life he was a disciple of Heraclides Ponticus Heraclides , Alexinus , and Menedemus , and afterwards of Zeno, who appears to have induced him to adopt Stoicism . ref name diog166 Diogenes La rtius, vii. 166 ref At a later time he was afflicted with terrible eye pain, ref Diogenes La rtius, vii. 37, 166 Cicero, Tusculan Disputations , ii. 25 ref which caused him to abandon Stoic philosophy, and to join the Cyrenaics , whose doctrine, that hedonism and the absence of pain was the highest good, had more charms for him than the austere ethics of Stoicism. ref name diog167 Diogenes La rtius, vii. 167 ref This renunciation of his former philosophical creed drew upon him the nickname of The Renegade lang el , Metathemenos . During the time that he was a Stoic, he was praised for his modesty, abstinence, and moderation, but afterwards he was described as a person greatly given to sensual pleasures. He died in his eightieth year of voluntary starvation. ref name diog167 Writings Diogenes La rtius mentions a series of works of Dionysius, all of which are lost On Apathy , in two books. On Training , in two books. On Pleasure , in four books. On Riches, and Favours, and Revenge . On the Use of Men . On Good Fortune . On Ancient Kings . On Things which are Praised ... more details
of Diogenes La rtius , consider them to be forgeries, some forged by the philosopher HeraclidesPonticus , others by or altered by Christian writers ref Diogenes Laertius, Book V, Heraclides ... usus esse HeraclidesPonticus......Heraclidis igitur crediderim esse fr.1 3 nam fr.4 non dubito ... more details
This article was auto generated by User Polbot . Taxobox name Black Sea Field Mouse status LR lc status system IUCN2.3 regnum Animalia phylum Chordata classis Mammalia ordo Rodent ia familia Muridae genus Apodemus species A. ponticus binomial Apodemus ponticus binomial authority Sviridenko, 1936 synonyms The Black Sea Field Mouse Apodemus ponticus is a species of rodent in the family Muridae . It is found in Armenia , Azerbaijan , Georgia country Georgia , possibly Iran Islamic Republic of , Iraq , Russian Federation , and Turkey . References Baillie, J. 1996. http www.iucnredlist.org search details.php 1900 all Apodemus ponticus . http www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 9 July 2007. Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894 1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. murinae A. Category Old World rats and mice Category Mammals of Southwest Asia Field Mouse, Black Sea Category Mammals of Russia Field Mouse, Black Sea Apodemus stub Russia stub az Qafqaz me si an es Apodemus ponticus eu Apodemus ponticus nl Pontische bosmuis sr Apodemus ponticus ... more details
Heraclea Pontica Pronunciation needed needing not the original Latin Greek pronunciation, but the Anglicized pronunciation that Classics Philosophy History etc. scholars use in English lang el H rakleia Pontik modern day Karadeniz Ere li , in the Zonguldak Province of Turkey , on the Black Sea , an ancient city on the coast of Bithynia in Asia Minor , at the mouth of the river Lycus river of Bithynia Lycus . It was founded by the Greek city state of Megara ref For report of Boeotian involvement see http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?lookup Paus 2e 5 2e26 2e7 Pausanias 5.26.7 ref c .560 558 and was named after Heracles who the Greeks believed entered the underworld at a cave on the adjoining Archerusian promontory Cape Baba . The colonists soon subjugated the native Mariandynians but agreed to terms that none of the latter, now Helots helot like serfs, be sold into slavery outside their homeland. Prospering from the rich, fertile adjacent lands and the sea fisheries of its natural harbor, Heraclea soon extended its control along the coast as far east as Cytorus Gideros, near Cide , eventually establishing Black Sea colonies of its own Cytorus ancient settlement Cytorus , Callatis and Chersonesos Taurica Chersonesus . Image Heraclea Pontica.png right 250px thumb Map indicating Heraclea Pontica underlined in red during Roman expansion era 264 BC. The prosperity of the city, rudely shaken by the Galatia ns and the Bithynia ns, was utterly destroyed in the Mithridatic Wars . It was the birthplace of the philosopher Heraclides Ponticus . The Greek historical author Memnon of Heraclea fl. 1c. A.D. wrote a local history of Heraclea Pontica in at least sixteen books. The work has perished, but Photios I of Constantinople Photius s Bibliotheca preserves a compressed account of books 9 16, seemingly the only ones extant in his day. These books run from the rule of the tyrant Clearchus of Heraclea Clearchus c. 364 353 BC to the later years of Julius Caes ... more details
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