Heraclitus
Greek philosopher (late 6th/early 5th-century BC)
- Lived
- 534 BC–470 BC
- Country
- Ephesus
Updated September 2026
About Heraclitus
Heraclitus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. He exerts a wide influence on Western philosophy, both Ancient and Modern philosophy, through the works of such authors as Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Martin Heidegger.
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