Heraclitus of Halicarnassus explained

Heraclitus of Halicarnassus (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἁλικαρνασσεύς|Herakleitos ho Halikarnasseus; 3rd century BC) was an elegiac poet of the Hellenistic period.

Heraclitus was a Carian, a native of Halicarnassus, a Greek city on the south-west coast of Anatolia. He was a contemporary and friend of Callimachus of Cyrene, who wrote a memorial epigram on him which is preserved in Diogenes Laërtius.^{[1] [2]} Only one poem by Heraclitus himself – an epigram on a mother who died in childbirth giving birth to twins – is extant in the Greek Anthology.^[3]

References

1. Diog. Laërt. 9.17; comp. Strab. xiv. p.656.
2. Anth. Pal. vii. 80.
3. Anth. Pal. vii. 465.

Bibliography

• "Heracleitus (3)", William Smith (ed.) Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 3. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1867.
• The Greek Anthology II (Loeb Classical Library) translated by W. R. Paton. London: Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916.