Empedocles: Extant Fragments

Zusatztext Packed with fresh suggestions and arguments which constitute a major contribution to a difficult and much discussed topic. Informationen zum Autor M.R. Wright is Professor of Classics at the University of Wales, Lampeter, UK. Klappentext 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. Vorwort 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis I. INTRODUCTION1. Life and WritingsDating Empedoc1es' Life Politics, Rhetoric, and Medicine The Manner ofEmpedocles' Death Works Attributed to Empedocles 2. PhysicsEarth, Air, Fire, and Water Love and Strife Mixing and Separating The Plan of the Physics Monsters and Men 3. Katharmoi and PhysicsCommon 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. TEXT7. llEPI «l»YEEill: (fragments 1-101)8. KA9APMOI (fragments 102-133)9. Addenda (fragments 134-152)III. TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY10. Physics 11. Katharmoi 12. Addenda Bibliography Bibliographical AfterWord Additional Bibliography Index Fontium Index Verborum Index Locorum Index Nominum et Rerum

Product details

• Authors: Empedocles, R. Wright
• Assisted by: M. R. Wright (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9781853994821
• ISBN: 978-1-85399-482-1
• No. of pages: 372
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 215 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Classic Commentaries
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary essays, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Literary studies: poetry and poets