Heraclitus of Ephesus: Everything is Becoming – Lecture 4 (History of Philosophy)

Why is Heraclitus harder to interpret than the earlier Ionians?

1. A.His writings survive only in late Roman paraphrase
2. B.He wrote in an obscure non-Greek dialect of Ephesus
3. C.His fragments are paradoxical, oracular, and pun-laden
4. D.His students contradicted each other so deeply