Hierocles

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Hierocles (or Hierokles) was a common first name in the Hellenized world and later in the Roman Empire that conquered much of it.

Hierocles (proconsul), proconsul of Bithynia and Alexandria during the reign of Diocletian
Hierocles (charioteer), the presumed lover and court official of the emperor Elagabalus
Hierocles (Stoic), a philosopher of the 2nd century AD.
Hierocles of Alexandria, fifth century Neoplatonist writer
Hierocles, a soothsayer in the play Peace by Aristophanes
Hierocles (author of Synecdemus), the otherwise unknown author of the Synecdemus