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Ancient Philosophy
In his De sensu, Aristotle offers what appears to be an uncharitable rapid-fire critique of Empedocles’s and Plato’s theories of light. This swift assessment ranges over the nature of light with respect to fire, its status to exist in and exit from the ...
M. Ananth
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In his De sensu, Aristotle offers what appears to be an uncharitable rapid-fire critique of Empedocles’s and Plato’s theories of light. This swift assessment ranges over the nature of light with respect to fire, its status to exist in and exit from the ...
M. Ananth
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Deserotização no projeto de Empédocles
Revista Eletrônica Estudos Hegelianos, 2021: While the development of the Empedocles’ figure in the various versions of Hölderlin’s drama has long been subject of scholarship, the shifts in the relationship between the hero and the women around him have remained largely unappreciated.
Priscilla Hayden Roy
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Colloquium 2: Empedocles, Aristotle, and the Unity of All Things
Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient PhilosophyThis project reframes the four roots (or elements) in Empedocles in order to challenge the Aristotelian account of the One as undifferentiated sameness.
Michael M. Shaw
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The Playful Role of the Girl in Empedocles’ B100
Rhizomata, 2021Empedocles’ B100 contains an analogy between a girl handling a clepsydra and respiration. This article argues that proposals to establish Love (Bollack 1965, Gheerbrant 2017) or Persephone (Rashed 2008) as the girl’s respiratory equivalent are rendered ...
Nathasja van Luijn
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Review: D. Furley, ‘Variations on themes from Empedocles in Lucretius’ proem’, BICS 17 (1970), 55–64
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical StudiesThe article discusses the scholarly impact of Furley’s study that argues in favour of Empedocles’ twofold presence in Lucretius’ DRN, both poetic and philosophical.
M. Garani
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2023
This chapter recounts the author's second year at university, which he found memorable for the friendships he formed with people who shared his passion for literature and ideas. It mentions Denis Taylor and Gerard Macdonald, who, like the author, were unsure of their directions in life and how they could reconcile a desire to change the world with an ...
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This chapter recounts the author's second year at university, which he found memorable for the friendships he formed with people who shared his passion for literature and ideas. It mentions Denis Taylor and Gerard Macdonald, who, like the author, were unsure of their directions in life and how they could reconcile a desire to change the world with an ...
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The Classical Quarterly, 1994
Few things can be more confusing, or confused, than the ancient reports about Empedocles' astronomy. Attempts in the modern literature at resolving the difficulties invariably either add to the confusion, or end by urging the need to ‘acknowledge the insufficiency of our data and suspend judgment’.
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Few things can be more confusing, or confused, than the ancient reports about Empedocles' astronomy. Attempts in the modern literature at resolving the difficulties invariably either add to the confusion, or end by urging the need to ‘acknowledge the insufficiency of our data and suspend judgment’.
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Horace and Empedocles' Temperature: A Rejected Fragment of Empedocles
Phoenix, 1969THE 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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2020
Empedocles (about 492–430 BCE) promoted himself as a daimon in flesh. He told a cosmic story about how daimones fell from their blessed state and the mode of their return. The pure daimon is a spherical being made up of the energy of Love. Owing to a moral fault, the individual daimon falls into flesh and enters a drawn-out cycle of moral and physical ...
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Empedocles (about 492–430 BCE) promoted himself as a daimon in flesh. He told a cosmic story about how daimones fell from their blessed state and the mode of their return. The pure daimon is a spherical being made up of the energy of Love. Owing to a moral fault, the individual daimon falls into flesh and enters a drawn-out cycle of moral and physical ...
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1957
Empedogles' simile of the clepsydra (DK6 31B100) is a crucial document for historians of ancient science. It has been much discussed, and often quoted in evidence, in spite of formidable differences of opinion about its significance. ‘Empedocles undertook an experimental investigation of the air we breathe’ (B. Farrington).
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Empedogles' simile of the clepsydra (DK6 31B100) is a crucial document for historians of ancient science. It has been much discussed, and often quoted in evidence, in spite of formidable differences of opinion about its significance. ‘Empedocles undertook an experimental investigation of the air we breathe’ (B. Farrington).
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