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Heraclides of Pontus (4th century BC)

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10.4324/9780415249126-A054-1
DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-A054-1
Version: v1,  Published online: 1998
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Heraclides, a pupil of Plato, was roughly contemporaneous with Aristotle. Best known in antiquity as a writer of dialogues on moral and religious themes, he also held interesting views about cosmology and the structure of matter. Only fragments of his works survive.

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Gottschalk, H.B.. Heraclides of Pontus (4th century BC), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-A054-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/heraclides-of-pontus-4th-century-bc/v-1.
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