Herodotus' Histories

Heracleides

Family: Kyme · Role: father of Aristodicos · First appears: Book 1 · §158–166

Life events

  • The Carians ambushed and destroyed the Persians, including Daurises and Myrsos.(Book 5 · §112–125 · 📍 by Pedasos)
    • With: Daurises Myrsos Gyges Ibanollis
    • “the Persians falling into it by night were destroyed both they and their commanders, namely Daurises and Amorges and Sisimakes; and with them died also Myrsos the son of Gyges.”

Book 1 · §158–166

  • child: Aristodicos “Aristodicos the son of Heracleides, a man of repute among the citizens, stopped the men of Kyme from doing so, having distrust of the answer and thinking that those sent to inquire were not speaking the truth; until at last other messengers were sent to the Oracle to ask a second time about Pactyas, and of them Aristodicos was one.”

Book 5 · §36–44

  • child: Aristagoras of Kyme (Heracleides is Aristagoras of Kyme's father.) “and Aristagoras the son of Heracleides of Kyme,”

Book 5 · §112–125

  • parent: Ibanollis “Heracleides the son of Ibanollis”
  • with Daurises (Heracleides led the ambush in which Daurises was killed.) “the Persians falling into it by night were destroyed both they and their commanders, namely Daurises and Amorges and Sisimakes; and with them died also Myrsos the son of Gyges. Of this ambush the leader was Heracleides the son of Ibanollis, a man of Mylasa.”

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