"For souls it is death to become water, and for water death to become earth. Water comes into existence out of earth, and soul out of water."
— Heraklitus (fl. 504-1 BCE)
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Date
c. 501 B.C.
Metaphor
"For souls it is death to become water, and for water death to become earth. Water comes into existence out of earth, and soul out of water."
Metaphor in Context
ψυχῇσιν θάνατος ὕδωρ γενέσθαι, ὕδατι δὲ θάνατος γῆν γενέσθαι, ἐκ γῆς δὲ ὕδωρ γίνεται, ἐξ ὕδατος δὲ ψυχή
[For souls it is death to become water, and for water death to become earth. Water comes into existence out of earth, and soul out of water.]
(DK B36)
[For souls it is death to become water, and for water death to become earth. Water comes into existence out of earth, and soul out of water.]
(DK B36)
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Provenance
Browsing Randy Hoyt's website, from which the unicode Greek is drawn.
Citation
Heraclitus, Fragments Trans T. M. Robinson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987).
The ancient Greek was encoded by Randy Hoyt, working from Perseus Digital Library and Hermann Diels' Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, ed. Walther Kranz (Berlin, 1951). <Link to www.heraclitusfragments.com>
The ancient Greek was encoded by Randy Hoyt, working from Perseus Digital Library and Hermann Diels' Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, ed. Walther Kranz (Berlin, 1951). <Link to www.heraclitusfragments.com>
Date of Entry
05/17/2011
