Viking Books, 2001. Greek/English. Hardcover. Like new tightly bound hardcover in a like new dust jacket. 8vo. ( 4.5 x 0.75 x 8 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes notes on translation, notes and a bibliography. 128 pp.

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ISBN: 9780670891955

An exact contemporary of Confucius, Lao Tzu and the Buddha, Heraclitus of Ephesus gave up his kingdom and chose, instead of the trappings of power, to seek the Word of wisdom. Twenty-five hundred years before Einstein, Heraclitus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that everything becomes energy in flux, in relativity:

"All things change to fire, and fire exhausted falls back into things."

His great book, On Nature, the world's first coherent philosophical treatise and a touchstone for Plato, Aristotle, and Marcus Aurelius, has long been lost to history-but its surviving fragments have for thousands of years tantalized our greatest thinkers-from Socrates to Montaigne, Nietzsche to Heidegger and Jung.

Now, acclaimed poet Brooks Haxton brings together all of the surviving fragments in a powerful new free-verse translation, with the ancient Greek originals beautifully presented en regard.

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