Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Empedocles Fifth century B.C. Greek philosopher who believed that all matter is composed of earth, air, fire and water, and that all change is caused by attraction and repulsion.
Wiktionary
- n. A Greek philosopher who held that all matter was composed of earth, air, fire and water
- n. A volcano off the southern coast of Sicily
WordNet 3.0
- n. Greek philosopher who taught that all matter is composed of particles of fire and water and air and earth (fifth century BC)
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek Ἐμπεδοκλῆς (Empedoklēs). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But from Maimonides's judgment concerning the works of "Empedocles," we may legitimately infer that he would have been no more favorable to Gabirol; for, as we shall see, Gabirol's system is also based upon a point of view similar to that of the so-called”
“In the selection of his models, his choice fell upon the older Greek writers, such as Empedocles, Aeschylus, Thucydides, men renowned for deep thought rather than elegant expression; and among the Romans, upon Ennius and Pacuvius, the giants of a ruder past.”
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
“More striking, "The Death of Empedocles" shows the philosopher leaping into Mount Etna he goes down, as Pythagoras comes up!”
“Both the Kimbell's own "Pythagoras Coming Out of a Cave" (1662) and "The Death of Empedocles" (1665-1670) — the first European painting of a volcano, according to Ms. Langdon — deal with pre-Socratic philosophers who were renowned for magical powers and their status as tricksters.”
“A generation later, Empedocles and Anaxagoras hypothesized the cause of solar eclipses, namely the cloaking of the Sun in the shadow of the Moon.”
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“There is no tedious sniping at current beliefs (apart from a rather funny bit towards the end about why Jupiter does not hurl thunderbolts; and he has a go also at the beliefs of Heraclitus and Empedocles about elements), just an explanation in detail of the philosophy of Epicurus and how that helps us understand the way the world around us works.”
“When Matthew Arnold published his collected poems in 1853, he intentionally omitted “Empedocles on Etna,” which is now recognized as one of his top ten poems in both the AP and Coaches Polls.”
“Magic: Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition, along with Women in the”
“Some 450 years before Jesus, Empedocles discovered:”
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“To prove his immortality to his understandably skeptical peers, Empedocles announced that he would jump into a volcano, Mt Etna, and pop back out unscathed.”
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