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Fragments or testimony

Heraclitus: Diels B fragments

Heraclitus

One hundred forty-five 22B units keep fragment, language, and transmitting carrier together.

Composition
late 6th or early 5th century BCE; quotations transmitted later
Sources and precision

The position locates sayings attributed to Heraclitus. Diels’s 1922 edition establishes the 22B references; each fragment retains its ancient or medieval carrier citation.

Confidence D · disputed range

  • Prokopton42 corpus manifestation manifests
Period
Antiquity
Languages
Ancient Greek · Latin · English · French
Extent
145 passages · 3,662 words

Before reading

What you will learn

Locate two opposed forces in a situation, seek their common measure, then choose a concrete change without reducing Heraclitus to a flux slogan.

Short summary

One hundred forty-five 22B units keep fragment, language, and transmitting carrier together.

Long summary

Heraclitus' book is lost. This edition does not reconstruct it. It takes the B references of Diels 1922 as stable identities, separates attributed wording from labels and bibliography, and retains every ancient or medieval carrier as part of the evidence.

Greek predominates; five units are transmitted in Latin. Complete non-official French and English translations support dialogue without claiming to replace the critical text.

Inside this work

The table of contents follows the divisions actually carried by the corpus.

Work › DK author › Class › Fragment

DK author 22145 passages
Class B145 passages
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Concepts covered

Historical context

The world around the text

The corpus manifests do not yet establish the precise place and circumstances of composition. The images below document the author’s world or the text’s transmission. They do not claim to show the exact scene of writing.

These are modern reconstructions. They situate a documented place, practice, or transmission and are not period documents.

Modern reconstruction of Ephesus for Heraclitus: Diels B fragments on Prokopton42.com
EphesusThe only stable geographic anchor in the ancient biographical tradition. The generated scene uses Ephesus and fl. c. 500 BCE as its documented anchors.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Heraclitus
Modern reconstruction of Nearby historical landmark, 146 BCE for Heraclitus: Diels B fragments on Prokopton42.com
Nearby historical landmark, 146 BCERome destroys Corinth and dominates Greece politically, while Greek philosophy increasingly shapes Roman elites. The image situates Heraclitus: Diels B fragments without claiming to show its scene of composition.
Modern reconstruction of Material world: agriculture and food, 334–323 BCE for Heraclitus: Diels B fragments on Prokopton42.com
Material world: agriculture and food, 334–323 BCEAlexander’s conquests open the Hellenistic age, where Greek schools spread far beyond Athens. The image situates Heraclitus: Diels B fragments without claiming to show its scene of composition.

What the world looked like

World of 1989

Modern reconstruction of the material world around Heraclitus: Diels B fragments: Technology, science, and care
Technology, science, and carePersonal computers, satellites, video, industrial robots, and expensive mobile phones exist, but the public Web does not yet. Computing, genetics, climate science, cosmology, and medical imaging produce growing data and international collaboration. CT, MRI, transplantation, vaccines, and intensive care advance; the AIDS epidemic exposes both medical capacity and its limits.
Modern reconstruction of the material world around Heraclitus: Diels B fragments: Travel and communication
Travel and communicationCars, high-speed rail, metros, aircraft, and containers globalize people and goods. Fixed telephones, fax, television, radio, and newspapers predominate. Email and computer networks remain mainly professional or academic.
Modern reconstruction of the material world around Heraclitus: Diels B fragments: Farming and food
Farming and foodMachinery, chemical inputs, breeding, and cold chains support high yields with increasingly debated social and environmental costs.
Modern reconstruction of the material world around Heraclitus: Diels B fragments: Clothing, women and men
Clothing, women and menLoose suits, jeans, trainers, women’s power suits, sportswear, and urban subcultures create highly varied silhouettes.
State of technology
Personal computers, satellites, video, industrial robots, and expensive mobile phones exist, but the public Web does not yet.
Science and knowledge
Computing, genetics, climate science, cosmology, and medical imaging produce growing data and international collaboration.
Medicine and care
CT, MRI, transplantation, vaccines, and intensive care advance; the AIDS epidemic exposes both medical capacity and its limits.
Transport
Cars, high-speed rail, metros, aircraft, and containers globalize people and goods.
Agriculture and food
Machinery, chemical inputs, breeding, and cold chains support high yields with increasingly debated social and environmental costs.
Communication
Fixed telephones, fax, television, radio, and newspapers predominate. Email and computer networks remain mainly professional or academic.
Clothing and fashion
Loose suits, jeans, trainers, women’s power suits, sportswear, and urban subcultures create highly varied silhouettes.

Editions, translations, and provenance

The following carriers represent the text. They do not create new passage identities.

  • Ancient Greekcritical_original_carrier_wording
  • Latincritical_original_carrier_wording
  • English AI-generated translation, non-officialCodex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-14
  • French AI-generated translation, non-officialCodex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-14

Source manifests: heraclitus.fragments

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