Heracleides (415 BC)
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Heracleides (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλείδης), son of Lysimachus, was a Syracusan and one of the three strategoi (generals) appointed by the Syracusans after the first defeat they suffered from the Athenians on their arrival in Sicily during the Sicilian Expedition, in 415 BCE. His colleagues were Hermocrates and Sicanus, and they were invested with full powers, the late defeat being justly ascribed by Hermocrates to the too great number of the generals, and their want of sufficient control over their troops.[1][2] They were deposed from their command in the following summer, on account of their failure in preventing the progress of the Athenian works. Of the three generals appointed in their place, one was also named Heracleides.[3]
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