Heracleides
Ἡρακλείδης
(Ἡρακλείδης), the name of several ancient Greek physicians.
1. The sixteenth in descent from Aesculapius, the son of Hippocrates I., who lived probably in the fifth century B. C. He married Phaeniarete, or, according to others, Praxithea, by whom he had tvo sons, Sosander and Hippocrates II., the most famous of that name. (Jo. Tzetzes, Chil. vii. Hist. 155, in Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xii. p. 680, ed. vet.; Poeti Epist. ad Artax., and Sorani Vita Hippocr. in Hippocr. Opera, vol. iii. p. 770, 850; Suid. s. v. Ἱπποκάτης; Steph. Byz. s. v. Κῶς).
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.