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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.
Death and legacy. 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.
6 de jul. de 2008 · The Death of Empedocles: A Mourning-Play. Friedrich Holderlin. State University of New York Press, Jul 6, 2008 - Drama - 328 pages. On the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich...
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. ** Diogenes Laertius gave two ver-
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 complete translation of the three versions, along with translations of Hölderlin's essays on the theory of tragedy.
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.
26 de sept. de 2019 · Friedrich Hölderlin’s unfinished drafts of Der Tod des Empedokles continue to inspire modern analysis (Foti 2006), and Nietzsche’s “stillbirth” tragedy on Empedocles has been well-treated recently (Most 2005), as has Matthew Arnold’s “Empedocles on Etna” (Kenny 2005).
