Empedocles
5th century BC Greek philosopher
- Fame71.5
- Momentum15.0
- Italy rank#199
ItalyThe pre-Socratic who gave the world earth, air, fire, and water — and then jumped into a volcano, or so the legend goes.
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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…
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