HERACLIDES, the author of a work on incredible events (πῦρ ἀπύρως), and another on Homeric allegories (ἀλλήγεια Ὀμηρῶν), which has been falsely ascribed to the native of Heraclea. We have no means of discovering at what time Heraclides flourished, or of what city he was a native; but his works are not without value, chiefly as supplying us with many quotations from lost poets. In the first we have a number of wonderful stories after the manner of Palæphatus, but all naturally resolved. In the second he has endeavoured to explain the mythic stories of Homer as allegories, in order to relieve Homer from the charge of impiety, to which he thinks he would otherwise be exposed. It was first published along with Palæphatus and some other authors, at Venice, by Aldus (1505), then by Gessner, Basle (1544), and by Gale in his Opuscula Mythologica, Amstel. 1688. The best edition is that by Heyne, Heracledia Allegoria Homerica, cum notis Schow. Götting. 1782; De Incredibilibus, Gr. et Lat. ed. Teucher, Lemgo, 1796. The Allegories have been translated into German by Schulthess, Zurich, 1779.