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Marcus Aurelius cites Socrates, Diogenes, Heraclitus, and Pythagoras as great philosophers of the past. How much more would Marcus have known about Heraclitus and Pythagoras and their teachings than we do today?
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For one, the Pythagorean’s cult might have still been active at the time. Conceivably, he could read the handwritten book Heraclitus wrote and left at the temple of Artemis at Ephesus. Heraclitus’s book, On Nature, burned down along with the temple and all we have today are fragments.