Empedocles
Philosopher
Empedocles was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a native citizen of Akragas, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is best known for originating the cosmogonic theory of the four classical elements. He also proposed forces he called... Wikipedia
Born: Acragas
Died: Mount Etna, Italy
Parents: Meto
Influenced by: Heraclitus, Parmenides, Pythagoras, and more
Books: Purifications, On Nature, Fragments, and more
Influenced: Aristotle, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Hölderlin, and more
Era: Pre-Socratic philosophy