Heracleides of Oxyrhinchis

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

Heracleides of Oxyrhynchus (in Egypt) (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλείδης ὁ Ὀξυρυγχίτης) was, according to the Suda, an ancient historian, while Diogenes Laërtius calls him a Callatian, or Alexandrian.[1] He lived in the reign of Ptolemy IV Philopator, that is, the 3rd century BCE.

Works

Issues with names

He is often called, after his father, Heracleides, the son of Serapion, and, under this name, the Suda attributes to him also philosophical works. It is not impossible that he may be the same as the Heracleides who is mentioned by Eutocius, in his commentary on Archimedes, as the author of a life of that great mathematician.

Notes

 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. 390. 

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