Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Eratidae

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870)
edited by William Smith

Eratidae

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4722984Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology — Eratidae1870William Smith (1813-1893)

ERA'TIDAE (Ἐρατίδαι), an ancient illustrious family in the island of Rhodes. The Eratidae of Ialysus in Rhodes are described by Pindar (Ol. vii. 20, &c.; comp. Böckh, Explicat. p. 165) as descended from Tlepolemus and the Heracleidae, of whom a colony seems to have gone from Argos to Rhodes. Damagetus and his son Diagoras belonged to the family of the Eratidae. [ Damagetus, Diagoras.][L. S.]