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 HERACLIDAE - Online Information article about HERACLIDAE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Apollo) and the fleet destroyed, because one of the Heraclidae had slain an Acarnanian soothsayer.
The Heraclidae ruled in Lacedaemon till 221 B.C., but disappeared much earlier in the other countries.
Greek tribes in claiming as ancestor for their ruling families one of the legendary heroes, but the traditions must not on that account be regarded as entirely mythical.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /HEG_HIG/HERACLIDAE.html   (835 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Lepanto
Italian name for Naupactos (Naupactus) a titular metropolitan see of ancient Epirus.
The name Naupactus (dockyard) is said to have originated in the traditional building of a fleet there by Heraclidae (Strabo, IX, ix, 7).
The site must have been chosen because of the strong position of the hill, the fertile plains of the neighbourhood, and the many streams.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/09181b.htm   (665 words)

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