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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.
La muerte de Empédocles ( Der Tod des Empedokles, en alemán) es una obra de teatro de Friedrich Hölderlin; una tragedia escrita en verso y con forma monologal. Hölderlin escribió tres versiones distintas y sucesivas de la obra, que quedó inacabada.
The Death of Empedocles. A Mourning-Play. Friedrich Holderlin, David Farrell Krell. Detalles del libro. Índice. Citas. Información del libro. On the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich Hölderlin composed three versions of a dramatic poem on the suicide of the early Greek thinker, Empedocles of Acragas.
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The exact dates of Empedocles' birth and death are unknown, and ancient accounts of his life conflict on the exact details. However, they agree that he was born in the early 5th century BC in the Greek city of Akragas in Magna Graecia, present-day Sicily. Modern scholars believe the accuracy of the accounts that he came from a rich and noble family...
Based on the surviving fragments of his work, modern scholars generally believe that Empedocles was directly responding to Parmenides' doctrine of monism and was likely acquainted with the work of Anaxagoras, although it is unlikely he was aware of either the later Eleatics or the doctrines of the Atomists. Many later accounts of his life claim tha...
According to Diogenes Laertius,[y]Empedocles wrote two poems, "On Nature" and "On Purifications", which together comprised 5000 lines. However, only some 550 lines of his poetry survive, quoted in fragments by later ancient sources. In old editions of Empedocles, about 450 lines were ascribed to "On Nature" which outlined his philosophical system, ...
Ancient Testimony
1. Laërtius, Diogenes (1925). "Pythagoreans: Empedocles" . Lives of the Eminent Philosophers. Vol. 2:8. Translated by Hicks, Robert Drew(Two volume ed.). Loeb Classical Library.
References
1. Barnes, Jonathan (11 September 2002). The Presocratic Philosophers. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-96512-0. 2. Burnet, John (1892). Early Greek Philosophy. Adam and Charles Black. 3. Inwood, Brad (2001). The Poem of Empedocles: A Text and Translation with an Introduction (Revised ed.). University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-8353-1. 4. Guthrie, W. K. C. (1962). A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 2, The Presocratic Tradition from Parmenides to Democritus. Cambridge University Press. ISBN...
Further reading
1. Chitwood, Ava (2004). Death by philosophy : the biographical tradition in the life and death of the archaic philosophers Empedocles, Heraclitus, and Democritus. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472113880. 2. Campbell, Gordon. "Empedocles". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 3. Freeman, Kathleen (1948). Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker. Forgotten Books. ISBN 978-1-60680-256-4. 4. Gottlie...
Empedocles Archived 9 September 2020 at the Wayback Machineby Jean-Claude Picot with an extended and updated bibliographyEmpedocles: Fragments at demonax.infoO'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Empedocles", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St AndrewsLa muerte de Empédocles es una obra de teatro de Friedrich Hölderlin; una tragedia escrita en verso y con forma monologal. Hölderlin escribió tres versiones distintas y sucesivas de la obra, que quedó inacabada.
6 de jul. de 2008 · On the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich Hölderlin composed three versions of a dramatic poem on the suicide of the early Greek thinker, Empedocles of Acragas. This book offers the first...
David Farrell Krell gives readers a brief chronology of Hölderlin's life, an introduction to the life and thought of Empedocles—including Hölderlin's Empedocles—detailed explanatory notes, and an analysis of the play and the theoretical essays, allowing for a full appreciation of this classic of world literature and philosophy.
