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Matt Colvin

Matt Colvin holds a Ph.D. in Classics from Cornell University and teaches classical languages and humanities at Mars Hill Academy. He has driven a 65-ton quarry truck, and published articles on Heraclitus in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy and The Classical Quarterly. He lives in Mason, OH with his wife and six children.

How Heraclitus taught me to read

His writings are fragments—like shards of pottery, or dinosaur bones. And they are a test of who can read best. Heraclitus will elude us until we get the crucial point. Matt Colvin holds a PhD in Classics from Cornell University and teaches classical languages and humanities a Mars Hill Academy.

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How Heraclitus taught me to read

His writings are fragments—like shards of pottery, or dinosaur bones. And they are a test of who can read best. Heraclitus will elude us until we get the crucial point. Matt Colvin holds a PhD in Classics from Cornell University and teaches classical languages and humanities a Mars Hill Academy.