Heracleides of Gyrton

Heracleides (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλείδης) of Gyrton in Thessaly, commanded the Thessalian cavalry in the army of Philip V of Macedon at the Battle of Cynoscephalae.[1]

For other people named Heracleides, see Heraclides (disambiguation).

Notes
  1. Polybius, The Histories 18.5

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bunbury, Edward Herbert (1870). "Heracleides". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 2. p. 389.

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