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Theophrastus Transmitting Empedocles
Theophrastus speaks of the kinship between living beings in connection with Empedocles in several of his works. In De Causis Plantarum 1.7.1, 1.13.2, and 1.21.5, he quotes and assesses Empedocles’ observations concerning plants and animals and their ...
Sandra Šćepanović
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The Editing of the Erotic in Hölderlin’s Empedocles Project
While the development of the Empedocles figure in the various versions of Hölderlin’s unfinished tragedy has long been the subject of scholarship, the shifts in his relationships to the women around him have largely gone unnoticed.
Priscilla Ann Hayden-Roy
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The paper analyses fragmentarily preserved views of Empedocles, that, in the author’s opinion, represent the antecedents of deviations from the anthropocentric vision of the world and anticipate the majority of later attempts at scientific ...
Željko Kaluđerović
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On the nature of ceramics technology: from Empedocles to Dawkins
This contribution discusses salient aspects of the development of ceramics technology from its invention to the present, and the role ceramics have played during the cultural development and technological progress of ancient and modern societies.
Robert B. Heimann
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Equivocal and Deceitful Didactic Poetry. What Style matters can say about Empedocles' audience
Since antiquity, Empedocles has been considered as an example of both successful and unsuccessful communication. Aristotle credits him with vividness of images, but blames him for failure of clarity, and eventually compares his obscureness to that of ...
Ilaria Andolfi
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Approaching Empedocles through PWL practices
To approach the poem-fragments of Empedocles as a discourse emerging from the drama of living, is to allow their performatively theorized snapshots to return from mere stills to moving images of practice in modulated stages of training.
Lucio Angelo Privitello
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Simplicius on Empedocles: A note on his commentary in Phys. 157.25–161.20
The present study attempts to show what influence a commentary can have on the formation of ideas about a preceding philosophical tradition. A case in point is Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s “Physics” and on fragments of Empedocles’ poem.
A. S. Afonasina
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Phren Hiere: A New Theology for a New Society in Empedocles's Verses
The aim of this paper is to analyze Empedocles’s main doctrines in the light of his historical and cultural context. To be precise, I will attempt to show how the Agrigentum and Sicily of his time – ravaged by inter-Greek wars, infighting between the ...
Federico Casella
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A brief historical perspective of otitis externa in dogs. [PDF]
Abstract Background The history of otology and otitis externa (OE) goes back to the earliest days of medicine, with notations made in early Egyptian writings and evolving to our modern‐day textbooks and publications. Conclusions and Clinical Relevance The history of OE in dogs is closely tied to the history of otology and veterinary dermatology, and ...
Noxon JO.
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Plasma activation: These extremely reactive milieux attack any organic compound, including the most refractory environmental pollutants, leading to their mineralization. Depending on the specific target, suitable plasma sources can be developed for best performance.
Giulia Tomei +5 more
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