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Heraclitus, also spelled Heracleitus or Herakleitos, (born c.540 BCE, Ephesus, Anatolia [now Selçuk, Turkey]—died c. 480) was a Greek philosopher remembered for his cosmology, in which fire forms the basic material principle of an orderly universe. Little is known about his life, and the one book he apparently wrote is lost. His views survive in the short fragments quoted and attributed to him by later authors.

From https://www.britannica.com/biography/Heraclitus. 

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Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:

Natasha Trethewey about Herakleitos, at 28:00: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-145-natasha-trethewey

Lawrence Wilkerson about Herakleitos, at 26:35: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-071-lawrence-wilkerson

“Heraclitus”: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heraclitus/

7 Greeks: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/7-greeks/

“Davenport’s pleiad”: https://newcriterion.com/issues/1995/11/davenports-pleiad