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GENEALOGY Pausanias Description of Greece [1.5.2] About the intermarriage between Herakles and Poseidon's families.

PLATO Alcibiades 1 120e Spartans are descendants of Herakles while the Persians are descendants of the Achaemenes, both of which families go back to Perseus, son of Zeus. Socrates wants to decide which family is superior.

PLATO Euthydemus 297c On whether Iolaus was more Dionysodorus' nephew than Herakles'.