A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

(Ἡρόδωρος).

1. A native of Heracleia, in Pontus (hence called sometimes ὁ Ποντικός, sometimes ὁ Ἡρακλεώτης), who appears to have lived about the time of Hecataeus of Miletus and Pherecydes, in the latter part of the sixth centnry B. C. His son Bryson, the sophist.

lived before the time of Plato. (Arist. Hist. Anim. 6.6, 9.12.)