Abstract
AbstractDo the early Greek poets and thinkers really “play” with their language? What sort of “play” should we expect from part of the professional craftsmen they were of a basicallysoundlanguage? What did imply their awareness of thephono-syllabic nature of Greek language? And what about Heraclitus in particular, who is most concerned among them with theintrinsic virtuesof Greek discourse (λόγος)? An analysis of fr. 22 B 52 DK within the melodic and sonic state of archaic Greek language reveals, instead of “play of words”, a ratherspontaneousphenomenon of phono-syllabic generation, that is asnecessaryfor the political message of Heraclitus’ fragment as the meaning of each of its words and their superficial syntactic organization.
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