Empedocles
Proem to Apollo (lost)
Traditional attribution
Proem to Apollo (lost)
Προοίμιον εἰς Ἀπόλλωνα
A hymn or prelude in honour of Apollo, lost. Ammonius connected fragment B134, on the sacred and ineffable mind darting through the world with swift thoughts, with Apollo, and some editors assign it to this hymn or to the Purifications.
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Authorship note
An unverifiable ancient attribution. Aristotle and Hieronymus (Diogenes Laertius VIII 57) say this hymn was burned by Empedocles' sister or daughter, in this case unintentionally.
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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)
- Tragedies (disputed attribution)
- 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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