Editing Heraclea Pontica (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Herodorus]], [[mythographer]], born in Heraclea.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Heracles the Philosopher (Herodorus, Fr. 14) |first=Christopher |last=Moore |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |doi=10.1017/S0009838817000404 |journal=[[The Classical Quarterly]] |volume=67 |issue=1 |date=May 2017 |pages=27–48|s2cid=171782488 }}</ref>
* [[Heraclides Ponticus]], philosopher and astronomer, born in Heraclea<ref>{{Cite DGRG|title=Heraclea}}</ref>
* [[Evagrius Ponticus]], philosopher, monk, and ascetic
* [[Xenagoras (historian)]], historian<ref>[https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/nu/598 Suda Encyclopedia, nu.598]</ref>
* [[Memnon of Heraclea]], historian
* [[Bryson of Heraclea]], mathematician and sophist
* [[Clearchus of Heraclea]], tyrant of Heraclea
* [[Timotheus of Heraclea]], son of Clearchus and succeeded him after his death
* [[Chion of Heraclea]], a disciple of [[Plato]] who helped assassinate the tyrant Clearchus
* [[Oxyathres of Heraclea]], tyrant of Heraclea
* [[Chamaeleon (philosopher)|Chamaeleon]], philosopher
* [[Promathidas of Heraclea]], historian<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0008.tlg001.perseus-grc2:11.77 Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, §11.77]</ref><ref>[http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/erudits/athenee/livre7gr.htm#295a Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, §7.2957]</ref>
* [[Marcian of Heraclea]], geographer
* [[Nicetas of Heraclea]], [[Metropolitan bishop|Metropolitan]] of Heraclea
* [[Dionysius of Heraclea]], tyrant of Heraclea
* [[Amastris (daughter of Oxyathres)|Amastris]], tyrant of Heraclea, niece to [[Achaemenid Empire|Persian King]] [[Darius III]]
* [[Diogenianus]], a Greek grammarian
* [[Theodore Stratelates]], Christian martyr saint