Empedocles
Tragedies (disputed attribution)
Traditional attribution
Tragedies (disputed attribution)
Τραγῳδίαι
Supposed tragedies, with no titles or fragments surviving. The philosopher was probably confused with a namesake, perhaps his grandson, to whom tradition ascribed dramatic works; the figure of forty-three comes from Hieronymus of Rhodes.
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Authorship note
Doubtful attribution. Aristotle credits him with tragedies; Hieronymus says he saw forty-three and Neanthes places them in his youth, but Heraclides son of Sarapion assigned them to another Empedocles (Diogenes Laertius VIII 57–58).
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Other works by Empedocles
- On Nature · 450
- Purifications · 445
- Strasbourg papyrus (fragments of On Nature, book I) · 90
- The Crossing of Xerxes (lost)
- Proem to Apollo (lost)
- Political writings (lost)
- Medical Discourse (lost)
- Epigrams (doubtful attribution)
- The Sphere (spurious)
- Book of the Five Substances and other Arabic texts (spurious)
Sources
- Diógenes Laercio. Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres VIII 51–77 (Empédocles), s. III d. C. Trad. inglesa de C. D. Yonge, Bohn, Londres, 1853 (Project Gutenberg n.º 57342); trad. inglesa de R. D. Hicks, Loeb, 1925 (Wikisource).
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