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Heraclides (painter) 
Summary
Heraclides or Heracleides (Greek: Ἡρακλείδης) was a Macedonian painter, who was at first merely a marine painter of sea and ships, but afterwards acquired some distinction as a painter in encaustic. He lived in the time of Perseus, after whose fall he went to Athens (168 BC).
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- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology : Heracleides.28
- Pliny the Elder, Natural History, xxxv.135