Heracleides (orHeraclides)ofCyme (Ancient Greek:Ἡρακλείδης ὁ Κυμαῖος; fl. 350 B.C.) is a little-attestedGreek historian who wrote a multivolumePersica, or history ofPersia, not extant.^[1] Fragments from thePersica are preserved primarily byAthenaeus and it describes the customs of the Persian court. Heracleides was himself a subject of Persia under theAchaemenid Empire.^[2]

• For discussion of passages from thePersica, see Pierre Bryant,From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire, translated by Peter Daniels (EIsenbrauns, 2002), limited previewonline; search "Heraclides of Cyme"

• Josef Wiesehöfer, "Heracleides of Cyme,"Encyclopaedia Iranicaonline

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