Ἡλιόδωρος

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Heliodorus /ˌhiːliəˈdɔːrəs/ is a Greek name meaning "Gift of the Sun". Several persons named Heliodorus are known to us from ancient times, the best known of which are:

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

Russian (Dvoretsky)

Ἡλιόδωρος: ὁ Гелиодор
1 по прозвищу ὁ Περιηγητής «проводник», афинский писатель, составивший описание афинского Акрополя; ум. в середине II в. до н. э.;
2 родом из Эмесы, в Сирии, автор любовного романа «Αἰθιοπικά», IV-V вв. н. э.