Empedocles: Extant Fragments

Empedocles: Extant Fragments

by Empedocles
Empedocles: Extant Fragments

Empedocles: Extant Fragments

by Empedocles

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Overview

These are the extant fragments from the works of Empedocles, the Greek philosopher (c.430 B.C.) who assumed four different elements - air, water, fire and earth, and two powers - love and hate. This text is part of the Classic Latin and Greek texts series.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781853994821
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 01/01/1998
Series: Classic Commentaries
Pages: 372
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

M.R. Wright is Professor of Classics at The University of Wales, Lampeter.

Table of Contents

I. Introduction
1. Life and Writings Dating Empedocles’ Life Politics, Rhetoric, and Medicine The Manner of Empedocles’ Death Works Attributed to Empedocles
2. Physics Earth, Air, Fire, and Water Love and Strife Mixing and Separating The Plan of the Physics Monsters and Men
3. Katharmoi and Physics Common Ground Crime, Punishment, and Responsibility Empedocles as Daimon
4. The Allocation of the Fragments
5. The Titles of the Poems
6. Concordance of the Ordering of the Fragments II. Text
7. (Fragments 1-101)
8. (Fragments 102-133)
9. Addenda (Fragments 134-152)
III. Translation and Commentary
10. Physics
11. Katharmoi
12. Addenda Bibliography Bibliographical Afterword Index Fontium Index Verborum Index Locorum Index Nominum et Rerum

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