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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.
- c. 434 BC
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).
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
- Who was Empedocles?Empedocles was a Pre-Socratic philosopher in ancient Greece (l.c. 484-c.424 BCE) best known for trying to harmonize the claims of the earlier philo...
- What is Empedocles famous for?Empedocles is famous for being the first to define the four elements (earth, air, fire, water) that were unified by Love and separated by Strife, t...
- How did Empedocles die?According to one story, Empedocles died jumping into a volcano. This story is not universally accepted as true, however.
- What did Love and Strife mean to Empedocles?To Empedocles, Love was the unifying force in the universe and Strife the separating force; this allowed for both unity and change in perceivable r...
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
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...
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...
