Heraclitus (In Our Time)
500 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus. Writing in the 5th century BC, Heraclitus believed that everything is constantly changing or, as he put it, in flux. He expressed this thought in a famous epigram: "No man ever steps into the same river twice." Heraclitus is often considered an enigmatic thinker, and much of his wo
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Around 500 BCE
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Gautama Buddha (563 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)
- Ramayana (500 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Confucius (551 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Cyrus the Great (600 BCE)