# Empedocles

> The pre-Socratic who gave the world earth, air, fire, and water — and then jumped into a volcano, or so the legend goes.

*5th century BC Greek philosopher*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/empedocles

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Italy
- **Born:** -494
- **Died:** -434
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Empedocles was born around 494 BC in Akragas, a Greek colony on Sicily's southern coast. He proposed that all matter arose from four elements mixed by Love and driven apart by Strife — a cosmology that held for two millennia. He wrote in verse, unusual among philosophers of his era, and enough survives to make him the best-preserved of the pre-Socratics. He preached reincarnation and rejected animal sacrifice, urging a vegetarian ethic that set him apart. Galen later named him founder of Sicilian medicine. Ancient writers couldn't resist mythologizing his death, spinning tales that turned his exit into theater.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 71.5 / 100
- **Momentum:** 15.0 / 100  (trend: BREAKOUT)
- **Historical depth:** 24.9 / 100
- **Now attention:** 64.9 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #199
- **Category rank:** #133

## Topics
#Academics, #Doctor, #Medicine, #Philosophy, #Literature, #Poetry, #Politics, #Ancient History

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83375)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empedocles)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Empedocles)
- [ايمبيدوكليس](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3)
- [Empédocles](https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emp%C3%A9docles)
- [Empedokl](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empedokl)
- [Эмпедокл](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BB)
- [Емпедокъл](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%8A%D0%BB)
- [এম্পেদোক্লেস](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B8)
- [ཨེམ་ཕི་ཌོཁ་ལི་ཟི།](https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%A8%E0%BD%BA%E0%BD%98%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%95%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%8C%E0%BD%BC%E0%BD%81%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A3%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%9F%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8D)
- [Empedoklo](https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empedoklo)
- [Empèdocles](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emp%C3%A8docles)
- [ئێمپیدۆکلس](https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%DB%8E%D9%85%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%AF%DB%86%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%B3)
- [Empedoklés](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empedokl%C3%A9s)
- [Empedokles](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empedokles)
- [Empedokles](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empedokles)
- [Εμπεδοκλής ο Ακραγαντινός](https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%B5%CE%B4%CE%BF%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%AE%CF%82_%CE%BF_%CE%91%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BD%CF%8C%CF%82)
- [Empedoklo](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empedoklo)
- [Empédocles](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emp%C3%A9docles)
- [Empedokles](https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empedokles)
- [Enpedokles](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enpedokles)
- [امپدوکلس](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%BE%D8%AF%D9%88%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%B3)
- [Empedokles](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empedokles)
- [Empédocle](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emp%C3%A9docle)
- [Eimpeidicléas](https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eimpeidicl%C3%A9as)
- [Wikiquote](https://af.wikiquote.org/wiki/Empedokles)
- [Wikiquote](https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Empedokles)
- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Empedocles)
- [Wikiquote](https://eo.wikiquote.org/wiki/Empedoklo)
- [Wikiquote](https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emp%C3%A9docles)

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