Heraclitus Paradoxographus

Heraclitus called the Paradoxographer was a Greek author of a short prose work, "On Unbelievable Stories" (Peri apiston), which offers rationalizing explanations of mythological tales, interpreting fabulous stories as distorted memories of ordinary events. He is distinct from the famous pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus. His date and origins are genuinely uncertain; scholars place the surviving text broadly in the Hellenistic or Roman period, and even his identity as a single named individual is conventional, since such paradoxographical collections often circulated under loosely attached names.