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Empedocles: The Extant Fragments

Autor Empedocles Editat de M. R. Wright
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 sep 1981
One of the most important Presocratic philosophers was the Sicilian Empedocles.  He presented his work in the form of two hexameter poems, of which about 450 lines are extant, revealing a formidable range of interests, acute observation, and a firm grasp of fundamental issues in the study of man and nature.
Empedocles’ theory of four elements was crucial to later developments in science and medicine.  He showed how forces of attraction and repulsion acted on the elements within a framework of cyclical time and limited space, and initiated or advanced major discoveries in astronomy, biology, and physiology.  More sophisticated concepts of divinity, personality, and mortality replaced traditional mythology, and these concepts were founded on the conviction that the individual has control over his own character and intellectual growth.
The introduction discusses Empedocles’ life and interests, the content of the Physics and Katharmoi, and the relation of the two poems to each other.  A new Greek text with apparatus is followed by translation, commentary, and detailed concordance, to give a comprehensive edition of this key figure in the history of ideas.
“With its careful and judicious editing of the fragments and its many fresh insights into Empedocles’ thought, this work will be indispensable to students of Presocratic philosophy.”—Alexander P.D. Mourelatos
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780300024753
ISBN-10: 0300024754
Pagini: 376
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.72 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press

Caracteristici

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.

Notă biografică

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

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

Undergraduates will find this book an invaluable guide through the perplexing terrain of Empedocles' language and thought. Scholars too will welcome it.
Packed with fresh suggestions and arguments which constitute a major contribution to a difficult and much discussed topic.

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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.