Saturday, March 28, 2020
War
Heraclitus, fragment 53 Diels-Kranz (tr. W.H.S. Jones):
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War is the father of all and the king of all;See:
some he has marked out to be gods and some to be men,
some he has made slaves and some free.
πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι πάντων δὲ βασιλεύς,
καὶ τοὺς μὲν θεοὺς ἔδειξε τοὺς δὲ ἀνθρώπους,
τοὺς μὲν δούλους ἐποίησε τοὺς δὲ ἐλευθέρους.
- G.S. Kirk, Heraclitus: The Cosmic Fragments (1962; rpt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), pp. 245-249
- W.K.C. Guthrie, A History of Greek Philosophy, Vol. I: The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans (1962; rpt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 446-449
- M. Marcovich, Heraclitus: Greek Text with a Short Commentary. Editio Maior (Merida: The Los Andes University Press, 1967), pp. 145-150
