'Hierocles' (or 'Hierokles') was a common first name in the
Hellenized world and later in the
Roman Empire that conquered much of it.
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Hierocles-
proconsul of
Bithynia and
Alexandria, during the reign of
Diocletian.
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Hierocles- the presumed lover and court official of the
emperor Elagabalus.
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Hierocles of Alexandria-
Neoplatonist writer of the
5th century.
★ Hierocles - a
soothsayer in the play
Peace by
Aristophanes.
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Hierocles - the otherwise unknown author of the ''
Synecdemus''.