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name: Heraclides of Pontus
name_greek: Ἡρακλείδης ὁ Ποντικός
eul_aid: fdw
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/authors/heraclides-of-pontus-1-fdw"
period: Classical
dialect: Koine
affiliation: Platonist
works_count: 2
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Heraclides of Pontus

*Ἡρακλείδης ὁ Ποντικός*

**eul_aid:** `fdw` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/authors/heraclides-of-pontus-1-fdw)

Heraclides Ponticus was a 4th century BCE Greek philosopher and astronomer. Two treatises survive. Free to read and download from the Greek library archive.

## Works

- [On Difficult Words](https://eulogikon.org/works/heraclides-pontus-difficult-words-fdw-aa) — *Περὶ δυσκλίτων ῥημάτων* · `fdw-aa`
- [On Prosody and Accent](https://eulogikon.org/works/heraclides-pontus-prosody-accent-fdw-ab) — *Ἀποσπάσματα* · `fdw-ab`

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