Heraclides of Smyrna

Heracleides (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλείδης) of Smyrna was physician, mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius[1] as one of the followers of Hicesius, the head of the Erasistratean school of medicine at Smyrna, who must therefore probably have lived in the first century BCE.

Notes
  1. Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 5.94

 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. 391.

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