Heracleides of Sinope

Heracleides (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλείδης) of Sinope was a writer of ancient Greece. Under this name we possess a Greek epigram in the Greek Anthology.^[1] It is not improbable that two other epigrams^[2] are likewise his productions, though his native place is not mentioned there. He seems to have been a poet of some celebrity, as Diogenes Laërtius^[3] mentions him as ἐπιγραμμάτων ποιητὴς λιγυρός. Diogenes Laërtius mentions fourteen persons of this name.

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Leonhard Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Heracleides". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 2. p. 387.