Heracleides
Ἡρακλείδης
(Ἡρακλείδης).
1. Of Cumae.
Works
A History of Persia (Περσικά)
He was the author of a history of Persia (Περσικά), a portion of which bore the special title of παρασκευαστικά, and, to judge from the quotations from it, contained an account of the mode of life of the kings of Persia. (Athen. 4.145, xii. p. 117; comp. ii. p. 48.) According to Diogenes Laertius (5.94), the Persica consisted of five books.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.