The Poem of Empedocles: A text and translation with a commentary: 39 (Phoenix Supplementary Volumes) - Hardcover

Inwood, Brad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802059716 ISBN 13: 9780802059710

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 1991

Synopsis

The Poem of Empedocles is a completely new edition of the fragments of Empedocles, which presents the Greek text and a new verse translation on facing pages. Also included are the testimonia from Diels-Kranz (for the first time translated into English), and a very full selection of frangment contexts, much of it material which has never before been translated into any modern language. The fragments are presented in their original contexts, which makes possible a fresh reading of the full evidence for Empedocles' thought. In this edition Brad Inwood argues for a new view of the character of Empedocles' philosophical work. In the introduction he makes a sustained case for there being only one poem originally, rather than two as has usually been thought, and explores the philosophical implications of this thesis at length. He offers new interpretations of Empedocles' metaphysics, epistemology, religious philosophy, andcosmology, and relates the work of Empedocles to Aristotle's critique.

About this title

About the Author:

Brad Inwood is Professor of Classics, University of Toronto.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0802059716
• ISBN 13: 9780802059710
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 360