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Immortality in Empedocles [PDF]

open access: yesApeiron, 2017
AbstractThe paper examines Empedocles’ attributions of immortality. I argue that Empedocles does not withhold immortality from the gods but rather has an unorthodox conception of what immortality is. Immortality does not mean, or imply, endless duration. A god’s immortality is its continuity, as one and the same organism, over a long but finite period.
Alex Long
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Empedocles

2014
Offers the first complete reinterpretation of Empedocles – one of the founding figures of Western philosophy – since the publication of the Strasbourg papyrus in 1999 brought new fragments of his lost work to light.
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The Death of Empedocles

The American Journal of Philology, 1986
Empedocles' jump into Etna has fascinated both scholars and poets from ancient until modern times. ** Diogenes Laertius gave two versions of the jump; Matthew Arnold made it the subject of his long dramatic poem, Empedocles on Etna. The more one probes into the story, the more fascinating it is, as it becomes ever more clear that Empedocles was doomed ...
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Empedocles’ Emulation of Anaxagoras and Pythagoras (D.L. 8. 56)

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Diogenes Laertius cites Alcidamas for the statement that Empedocles emulated Anaxagoras and Pythagoras in his dignity of bearing and the philosophy of nature.
Dmitri Panchenko
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Horace and Empedocles' Temperature: A Rejected Fragment of Empedocles

Phoenix, 1969
THE ARS POETICA closes with a spirited burlesque on the subject of inspiration. The piece is undisturbed fun only on the surface. The romantic poet, who is all inspiration, has turned uesanus. Horace credits him with a destructive force directed against others but also against himself; he is wishing for his own death.
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Thinking With Empedocles

2021
The paper offers a close analysis of Aristotle’s discussion in De Anima 1. 4 (407b27–408a34) of the views according to which soul is harmonia. To understand properly why the harmonia views are important for Aristotle, we need a better grasp of Empedocles’ role in his discussion.
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Empedocle

2014
L'opera, costituita da 3 volumi (vol. I A-I; vol. II J-Z; vol. III Apparati), illumina, in un percorso di 1200 voci, le molteplici linee tematiche del pensiero di Giordano Bruno, il contesto storico, le fonti, la fortuna, la storiografia.
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