Heracleides ( grc, Ἡρακλείδης) was a
tyrant or ruler of
Leontini,
Magna Graecia
Magna Graecia (, ; , , grc, Μεγάλη Ἑλλάς, ', it, Magna Grecia) was the name given by the Romans to the coastal areas of Southern Italy in the present-day Italian regions of Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania and Sicily; these re ...
, at the time when
Pyrrhus of Epirus landed in
Sicily, in 278 BC. He was one of the first to offer submission to that monarch.
[Diod. ''Exc. Hoeschel.'' xxii. p. 296]
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4th-century BC Greek people
Sicilian Greeks
Sicilian tyrants