Heraclitus
c. 535 BCE – 470 BCElived
Ephesus, Ionia
- Presocratic
Wrote in deliberately obscure aphorisms and held that stability is an illusion produced by change in balance. Antiquity nicknamed him the Riddler and the Weeping Philosopher.
Known for
- everything flows
- unity of opposites
- logos
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.