of Tarentum (fl. 3rd – 2nd century BC) a Pyrrhonist philosopher and physician of the Empiric school Heraclides Ponticus (390–310 BC), philosopher and astronomer who suggested heliocentrism Heraclides of Aenus, one of Plato's students, with his brother Python in 358 BC he assassinated Cotys, king of Thrace Heraclides Lembus, a philosopher Literature Heracleides of Cyme fl. 350 BC, a little-attested historian Heracleides of Magnesia, author of a lost history of Mithridates VI of Pontus Heracleides of Odessus, a Greek historian mentioned by Stephanus Byzantinus Heraclides Ponticus the Younger, 1st century, Greek scholar who studied in Alexandria and worked in Rome (large passages from his works were published by Porphyry) Heracleides (rhetor), or Heracleides of Lycia, a Greek rhetorician of Lycia from the second century of our era. He was a disciple of Herodes Atticus, and taught in Athens and Smyrna Heracleides of Alexandria, Greek grammarian Heracleides of Sinope, a poet with one epigram in The Greek Anthology Fine arts Heraclides (painter) a Macedonian painter of ships and encaustic, c. 168 BC Heracleides (architect), an architect Heracleides of Ephesus, a sculptor, son of Agasias Heracleides the Phocian, a sculptor from Phocis Physicians Several ancient physicians were named Heraclides: Heraclides (physician), son of Hippocrates I, married to Phaeniarete (or Praxithea), father of Sosander and Hippocrates II Heracleides Tarentinus, c. 2nd century BC, a physician of the Empiric school Heraclides of Erythrae 1st century BC, a physician of Erythrae in Ionia Heraclides of Smyrna 1st century BC, a follower of Hicesius, head of the Erasistratean school of medicine at Smyrna Other uses Heraclides, a grouping of swallowtail butterflies within the genus Papilio