Hierocles

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

• Hierocles- proconsul of Bithynia and Alexandria, during the reign of Diocletian.
• Hierocles- the presumed lover and court official of the emperor Elagabalus.
• Hierocles of Alexandria- Neoplatonist writer of the 4th century.