Which Greek philosopher is popularly known as 'The Weeping Philosopher' because of his melancholy nature?
Heraclitus Heraclitus Heraclitus of Ephesus (; ; ) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, and a native of the city of Ephesus, then part of the Persian Empire. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom. From the lonely life he led, and still more from the apparently riddled and allegedly paradoxical nature of his philosophy and his stress upon the heedless unconsciousness of humankind, he was called "The Obscure" and the "Weeping Philosopher". Heraclitus was famous for his insistence on ever-present change as being
Hippo (philosopher) Hippo (philosopher) Hippo (; , "Hippon"; fl. 5th century BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He is variously described as coming from Rhegium, Metapontum, Samos, and Croton, and it is possible that there was more than one philosopher with this name. Although he was a natural philosopher, Aristotle refused to place him among the other great Pre-Socratic philosophers "because of the paltriness of his thought." At some point Hippo was accused of atheism, but as his works have perished, we cannot be certain why. He was accused of impiety by the comic poet Cratinus in his "Panoptae", and, according to