Heraclides

Family: Syracuse · Role: admiral · First appears: Nicias

Life events

• Dion allowed conspirators to murder Heraclides in his own house.(Dion)
  • With: Dion
  • “he gave way to some whom formerly he hindered when they designed to kill him, who, breaking in, murdered Heraclides in his own house.”

Nicias

• elder kin: Pollichus “His uncle Pollichus, in fear for him, put out with ten galleys which he commanded”

Dion

• rivals with Dion “they understood that it would have been impossible to have kept the city quiet, as long as Dion and Heraclides were competitors in the government.”
• enemies with Dion “in all the matter of their former enmity and rivalry against him, they were now absolutely overcome by his virtue”
• elder kin: Theodotes “Heraclides sent his brother, and after him his uncle, Theodotes, to beg him to help them”
• servant: Dionysius “This Heraclides was one of those whom Dionysius had banished, very good soldier, and well known for the commands he had formerly had under the tyrant”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.