ABSTRACT
The doxographical tradition attributes to Heraclides a theory of lightlike, phôtoeidês, soul. The source of this doctrine is usually considered to be the dialogue which contains a story of cosmic vision experienced by Empedotimus of Syracuse. The details of the story preserved in a handful of fragments were variously interpreted as parts of a cosmological picture endowed with eschatological significanc , and there has been a tendency among scholars to regard Heraclides’ position as some sort of middle ground between the mind-body dualism underlying the theories of soul in Plato’s Academy and the naturalism of Aristotle’s later psychological doctrine.
