Heraclīdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Surnamed Pontĭcus. A Greek philosopher, born at Heraclea in Pontus about B.C. 380. He came early to Athens, where he became a disciple of Plato and Aristotle, and had made a reputation by about B.C. 340. He was the author of some sixty works on a great variety of subjects-philosophy, mathematics, music, grammar, poetry, political and literary history, and geography. He was a learned and interesting writer, but somewhat deficient in critical power. There are a few fragments of his works remaining, besides an extract from a book on constitutions which bears his name, edited by Köler (Halle, 1804), Coraes (Paris, 1805), and Müller. See Deswert, De Heraclide Pontico (Louvain, 1830), and F. W. Schmidt, De Heraclidae Pontici etc. Dialogis Deperditis (Breslau, 1867).

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