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Heliodorus 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:
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
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