# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herodorus-of-heraclea
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:40:30.288Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herodorus-of-heraclea"
name: "Herodorus of Heraclea"
slug: "herodorus-of-heraclea"
description: "Herodorus of Heraclea was a native of Heraclea Pontica who wrote a history on Heracles around 400 BC. Plutarch references Herodorus several times in his account of Theseus in Parallel Lives. He is among the authors whose fragments were collected in Felix Jacoby's Fragmente der griechischen Historiker."
tagline: "Ancient Greek mythographer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "-500"
deathDate: "-460"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.83
  momentum:             0.8256880733944956
  historical:           11.808496
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodorus"
    title: "Herodorus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "هيرودوروس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodor_d'Heraclea"
    title: "Herodor d'Heraclea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodoros_von_Herakleia"
    title: "Herodoros von Herakleia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%97%CF%81%CF%8C%CE%B4%CF%89%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%BF_%CE%97%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%8E%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82"
    title: "Ηρόδωρος ο Ηρακλειώτης"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodorus"
    title: "Herodorus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodoro"
    title: "Herodoro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9rodore_d'H%C3%A9racl%C3%A9e"
    title: "Hérodore d'Héraclée"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodoro_de_Heraclea"
    title: "Herodoro de Heraclea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erodoro_di_Eraclea"
    title: "Erodoro di Eraclea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%98%E3%83%A9%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%81%AE%E3%83%98%E3%83%AD%E3%83%89%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ヘラクレイアのヘロドロス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodorus_Heracleotes"
    title: "Herodorus Heracleotes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodoros_z_Heraklei"
    title: "Herodoros z Heraklei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BE%D1%80"
    title: "Геродор"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q720494"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump