Fragments
Heraclitus
Haxton, Brooks (TRN)
Hillman, James (FRW)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
In the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred years before Einstein-Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that everything becomes energy in flux, in relativity. His great book, On Nature, the world's first coherent philosophical treatise and 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 Montaigne to Nietzsche, Heidegger to Jung. Now, acclaimed poet Brooks Haxton presents a powerful free-verse translation of all 130 surviving fragments of the teachings of Heraclitus, with the ancient Greek originals beautifully reproduced en face.
AUTHOR BIO
Brooks Haxton's poetry translations include Dances for Flute and Thunder: Poems from the Ancient Greek, which was nominated for a PEN translation award, and Victor Hugo's Selected Poems for Penguin Classics.
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"A pellucid and informed translation." (Rita Dove, The Washington Post)
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ISBN: 0142437654
ISBN(13-digit): 9780142437650
Copyright: 2003
Dewey Decimal: 180
Book Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 128
Paper Weight (lb): 0.22
