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475 BCE - Neanthes of Cyzicus reported that Heraclitus died covered in dung after failing to cure himself of dropsy. [1] 458 BCE – Zeno of Elea, according to Valerius Maximus, was tortured and killed by the tyrant Nearchus, after biting off the tyrant's ear. 435 BCE – According to legend, Empedocles leapt to his death into the crater of Etna.
Heraclitus painted as the weeping philosopher by Johannes Moreelse c. 1630. French rationalist philosopher René Descartes read Montaigne and wrote in The Passions of the Soul that indignation can be joined by pity or derision, "So the laughter of Democritus and the tears of Heraclitus could have come from the same cause". [205] [206]
Heraclitus (Greek: Ἡράκλειτος; fl. 1st century AD) was a grammarian and rhetorician, who wrote a Greek commentary on Homer which is still extant. Little is known about Heraclitus. It is generally accepted that he lived sometime around the 1st century AD. [ 1 ]
Many of Parmenides's qualities were the direct opposite of Heraclitus. Heraclitus grasped his truths through intuition. He saw and knew the world of Becoming. Parmenides, however, arrived at his truths through pure logic. He calculated and deduced his doctrine of Being. Parmenides had an early doctrine and a later, different, teaching.
Heraclitus (Greek: Ἡράκλειτος, romanized: Hērakleitos; fl. c. AD 190–200) was a Christian Biblical scholar and bishop of the late 2nd century. [1]According to Eusebius, and Jerome in De viris illustribus, Heraclitus wrote commentaries on the Acts of the Apostles and/or the Epistles, [a] during the reigns of Commodus and Septimius Severus.
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Heracleides of Cyme, tyrant of Cyme in the 3rd century BC of uncertain name, usually accepted to be Heraclitus of Cyme; Heraclides (son of Antiochus), general of Alexander the Great; Heraclides (son of Argaeus), admiral of Alexander the Great; Heracleides of Maroneia, a Greek in the service of the Thracian chief Seuthes c. 300 BC
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