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The Death of Empedocles (German: Der Tod des Empedokles) is an unfinished drama by Friedrich Hölderlin. It exists in three versions written from 1797 to 1800, the first of which is the most complete.
The Death of Empedocles by Salvator Rosa (1615–1673), depicting the legendary alleged suicide of Empedocles jumping into Mount Etna in Sicily. According to Aristotle, Empedocles died at the age of 60 (c. 430 BC), even though other writers have him living up to the age of 109.
Empedocles was a Greek philosopher, statesman, poet, religious teacher, and physiologist. According to legend only, Empedocles was a self-styled god who brought about his own death, as dramatized by the English poet Matthew Arnold in “Empedocles on Etna,” by flinging himself into the volcanic.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
26 de sept. de 2019 · Reports on his death are confused. We can be sure that he did not make the fiery leap into Aetna, as was widely held in antiquity (Chitwood 1986). It is possible, but that is all, that he died in the Peloponnese (A 1 = P 29.71b–72).
THE DEATH OF EMPEDOCLES. To the elements it came from, Everything will return-Our bodies to earth, Our blood to water, Heat to fire, Breath to air. They were well born, they will be well entomb'd- But mind?* Empedocles' jump into Etna has fascinated both scholars and po-ets from ancient until modern times.
Empedocles (of Acagras in Sicily) was a philosopher and poet: one of the most important of the philosophers working before Socrates (the Presocratics), and a poet of outstanding ability and of great influence upon later poets such as Lucretius.
Considerado como enemigo del estado sacerdotal, el filósofo Empédocles estaría sumido en la oscuridad, sufriendo los tormentos de la soledad y la duda. Sin embargo, es capaz de hallar una fuerza renovada a través de la voluntad del pueblo e incluso, de alcanzar la inmortalidad.
