Title: Empedocles, the extant fragments /
Authors: Empedocles.; Wright, M. R., 1933-
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Year: 1981
Subjects: Philosophy of nature.; Gods, Greek.; Philosophy of nature Early works to 1800; Physics; Science
Contents: 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 an d 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 (in Greek) -- 7. Fragments 1-101 -- 8. Fragments 102-133 -- 9. Addenda (fragments 134-152) -- III. Translation and commentary -- 10. Physics -- 11. Katharmoi -- 12. Addenda.