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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.
- c. 434 BC
18 de feb. de 2022 · Empedocles was regarded as divine during his life and was believed to have been taken bodily to heaven, never experiencing death, though detractors seem to have started the famous legend that he leapt into a volcano to prove he was a god.
- Joshua J. Mark
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).
His death in particular attracted attention and is reported to have occurred in several, clearly bathetic, ways: that he fell overboard from a ship and drowned; that he fell from his carriage, broke his leg and died; that he hanged himself; or the most famous account that, when he felt he was shortly to die and because he wished to appear to hav...
The Death of Empedocles. tragedy by Hölderlin. Also known as: “Der Tod des Empedokles” Learn about this topic in these articles: discussed in biography. In Friedrich Hölderlin. Der Tod des Empedokles ( The Death of Empedocles ), the first version of which he nearly completed; fragments of a second and a third version have also survived.
