Heraclitus of Halicarnassus (Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἁλικαρνασσεύς, romanized: 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.

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