Editing Heliodorus

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'''Heliodorus''' {{IPAc-en|ˌ|h|iː|l|i|ə|ˈ|d|ɔər|ə|s}} is a [[Greece|Greek]] [[name]] meaning "Gift of the Sun". Several persons named Heliodorus are known to us from ancient times, the best known of which are: 

*[[Heliodorus (minister)]] a minister of Seleucus IV Philopator c. 175 BC
*[[Heliodorus of Athens]] ancient author who wrote fifteen books on the Acropolis of Athens, possibly about 150 BC
*Heliodorus (ambassador), a Greek ambassador who erected famous votive [[Heliodorus pillar]] around 110 BC near Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, India
*[[Heliodorus (metrist)]] a metrist in the 1st century who did work on the comedies of Aristophanes
*[[Heliodorus (surgeon)]] a surgeon in the 1st century, probably from Egypt, and mentioned in the Satires of Juvenal
*[[Gaius Avidius Heliodorus]], 2nd century ''secretarius ab epistolis'' and Prefect of Egypt
*[[Heliodorus of Larissa]], c. 3rd century, author of an extant treatise on optics
*[[Heliodorus of Emesa]], 3rd-century Phoenician author of the novel ''Aethiopica''
*[[Heliodorus (sophist)]] a 3rd century sophist from Arabia Petraea
*[[Heliodorus of Bet Zabdai]] (died 344), Syrian bishop and martyr
*[[Heliodorus of Altino]] (died 390), 4th-century Christian saint
*[[Heliodorus of Alexandria]] 5th-century Neoplatonist philosopher, and brother of Ammonius Hermiae
*[[Heliodorus (6th-century philosopher)]], author of a work entitled ''Commentary''
*[[Heliodorus of Catania]], 8th-century necromancer and witchdoctor from Catania

==See also==
* [[Sergei Trufanov]] (1880–1952), known as Heliodorus or Iliodor, associate and rival of Rasputin
* [[Heliodor Píka]] (1897–1949), a Czechoslovak army officer
* [[Heliodorus pillar]]
* [[Heliodora (disambiguation)]]

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