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Empedocles (c. 494-434 B.C.) achieved legendary status as a philosopher, scientist, healer, poet and orator. He made important contributions to the developments of European thought with his theory of the four elements, his detailed work on perception, respiration and cognition, and his understanding in the kinship in structure and form of the hierarchy of living creatures.
Now available in paperback, this is the first full-scale edition this century of the extant fragments, which are grouped into two poems -- Physics and Katharmoi. In her Introduction, Professor Wright surveys the evidence for Empedocles' life and writings, and gives a clear account of the main lines of thought within a framework common to the poems. The fragments are presented in their contexts in a new ordering with full critical apparatus; they are followed by a translation and commentary on each, in which the linguistic, philosophical and scientific questions relevant to the text are examined. The Indexes cover sources, passages cited and subject matter, as well as a comprehensive concordance of Empedocles' vocabulary. This new in paperback edition has been updated with a bibliographic commentary covering the last fifteen years of Empedoclean scholarship, and is part of the Classic Latin and Greek texts series.
Contents
I. INTRODUCTION
1. Life and Writings
Dating Empedoc1es' Life
Politics, Rhetoric, and Medicine
The Manner ofEmpedocles' 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. llEPI «l»YEEill: (fragments 1-101)
8. KA9APMOI (fragments 102-133)
9. Addenda (fragments 134-152)
III. TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY
10. Physics
11. Katharmoi
12. Addenda
Bibliography
Bibliographical AfterWord
Additional Bibliography
Index Fontium
Index Verborum
Index Locorum
Index Nominum et Rerum