cold, dry and wet). Though this elemental strife was constant and fierce, Heraclitus viewed it as a positive and creative one. In fact, to help illustrate this cosmic paradox, Heraclitus used the twin images of the bow and the lyre to express how harmony can arise out of opposing, seemingly destructive forces. Just as an arch is held together by the very forces that would tear it apart, so Heraclitus saw the strife among the elements as an ultimately stabilizing one.3 Heraclitus’s vision, strange