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Information: Empedocles of Acragas (or Akragas or Agrigentum), fl. mid-5th BC. One of the greatest of the Greek Presocratic thinkers, he put forth a view of the world as composed of four elements, earth, air, fire and water, whose relation to one another was governed
Empedocles Sites:
Empedocles of Acragas Empedocles of Acragas: Biographical article by J J O'Connor and E F Robertson. Includes glossary and links to biographies of related thinkers. (Empedocles) http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Empedocles.html
Empedocles of Agrigentum at Peithô's Web Empedocles of Agrigentum at Peithô's Web: Includes the Leonard translation of the Empedocles' fragments alongside the original Greek, as well as the Life of Empedocles from Diogenes Laertius. (Empedocles) http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/empedocles/
Dr. Edward Zeller on Empedocles Dr. Edward Zeller on Empedocles: From Zeller's 1889 work, Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy. Considers the scientific and mystic aspects of Empedocles' teachings. (Empedocles) http://hypatia.wright.edu/Dept/PHL/Class/PS/ZelEmped.html
Empedocles Empedocles: Lecture notes by S. Marc Cohen, presenting Empedocles as part of the pluralistic response to Parmenides' teachings. (Empedocles) http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/emped.htm
The Structure of Empedocles' Fragment 17 The Structure of Empedocles' Fragment 17: A 2000 paper by Simon Trepanier. An intensive study of this, the longest and most illuminating of Empedocles' fragments. (Empedocles) http://www.humboldt.edu/~essays/paper1.html
Empedocles: Fragments and Commentary Empedocles: Fragments and Commentary: From the Hanover Historical Texts Project. Arthur Fairbanks translations of the fragments of Empedocles. (Empedocles) http://history.hanover.edu/texts/presoc/emp.htm
Cosmos of the Ancients: Empedocles Cosmos of the Ancients: Empedocles: Short article by Stephen Stenudd reviewing the cosmological aspects of Empedocles' writings, and Aristotle's reaction to them. (Empedocles) http://www.stenudd.com/myth/greek/empedocles.htm
An Empedocles Bibliography An Empedocles Bibliography: A list of writings about this thinker in various European languages. (Empedocles) http://www.presocratics.org/empedocles.htm
Additional
Information: Empedocles of Acragas (or Akragas or Agrigentum), fl. mid-5th BC. One of the greatest of the Greek Presocratic thinkers, he put forth a view of the world as composed of four elements, earth, air, fire and water, whose relation to one another was governed
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