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Empedocles, the Glossary

Empedocles (Ἐμπεδοκλῆς;, 444–443 BC) was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and a native citizen of Akragas, a Greek city in Sicily.^[1]

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Admetus of Pherae

In Greek mythology, Admetus (Ancient Greek: Ἄδμητος Admētos means 'untamed, untameable') was a king of Pherae in Thessaly.

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Agrigento

Agrigento (Girgenti or Giurgenti; translit; Agrigentum or Acragas; ’GRGNT; Kirkant, or جرجنت Jirjant) is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy and capital of the province of Agrigento.

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Air (classical element)

Air or Wind is one of the four classical elements along with water, earth and fire in ancient Greek philosophy and in Western alchemy.

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Anaxagoras (Ἀναξαγόρας, Anaxagóras, "lord of the assembly"; 500 – 428 BC) was a Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Empedocles and Anaxagoras are 5th-century BC Greek philosophers, ancient Greek physicists, natural philosophers and Pluralist philosophers.

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Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.

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Ancient Olympic Games

The ancient Olympic Games (τὰ Ὀλύμπια, ta Olympia.

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Apollo

Apollo is one of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology.

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Aristotle

Aristotle (Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. Empedocles and Aristotle are ancient Greek physicists, natural philosophers, philosophers of love and philosophers of science.

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Ars Poetica (Horace)

"Ars Poetica", or "The Art of Poetry", is a poem written by Horace c. 19 BC, in which he advises poets on the art of writing poetry and drama.

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Atomism

Atomism (from Greek ἄτομον, atomon, i.e. "uncuttable, indivisible") is a natural philosophy proposing that the physical universe is composed of fundamental indivisible components known as atoms.

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Biology

Biology is the scientific study of life.

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Cellular respiration

Cellular respiration is the process by which biological fuels are oxidized in the presence of an inorganic electron acceptor, such as oxygen, to drive the bulk production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which contains energy.

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Classical element

The classical elements typically refer to earth, water, air, fire, and (later) aether which were proposed to explain the nature and complexity of all matter in terms of simpler substances.

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Cosmogony

Cosmogony is any model concerning the origin of the cosmos or the universe.

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Daimon

The Ancient Greek: δαίμων, pronounced daimon or daemon (meaning "god", "godlike", "power", "fate"), originally referred to a lesser deity or guiding spirit such as the daimons of ancient Greek religion and mythology and of later Hellenistic religion and philosophy.

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Diogenes Laertius

Diogenes Laërtius (Διογένης Λαέρτιος) was a biographer of the Greek philosophers.

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Divinity

Divinity or the divine are things that are either related to, devoted to, or proceeding from a deity.

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Dogma

Dogma, in its broadest sense, is any belief held definitively and without the possibility of reform.

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Earth (classical element)

Earth is one of the classical elements, in some systems being one of the four along with air, fire, and water.

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Eleatics

The Eleatics were a group of pre-Socratic philosophers and school of thought in the 5th century BC centered around the ancient Greek colony of Elea (Ἐλέα), located around 80 miles south-east of Naples in southern Italy, then known as Magna Graecia.

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Empedocles on Etna

Empedocles on Etna is a dramatic poem or closet drama in two acts written by the Victorian poet-critic Matthew Arnold and first published, anonymously, in 1852.

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Euclid

Euclid (Εὐκλείδης; BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician.

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Fire (classical element)

Fire is one of the four classical elements along with earth, water and air in ancient Greek philosophy and science.

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Friedrich Hölderlin

Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (20 March 1770 – 7 June 1843) was a German poet and philosopher.

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Hades

Hades (Hā́idēs,, later), in the ancient Greek religion and mythology, is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld, with which his name became synonymous.

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Hellenistic period

In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year, which eliminated the last major Hellenistic kingdom.

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Hera

In ancient Greek religion, Hera (Hḗrā; label in Ionic and Homeric Greek) is the goddess of marriage, women, and family, and the protector of women during childbirth.

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Heraclides Ponticus

Heraclides Ponticus (Ἡρακλείδης ὁ Ποντικός Herakleides; c. 390 BC – c. 310 BC) was a Greek philosopher and astronomer who was born in Heraclea Pontica, now Karadeniz Ereğli, Turkey, and migrated to Athens.

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Horace

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC),Suetonius,. commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."Quintilian 10.1.96.

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Intersex

Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics, including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies".

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Light Fantastic (TV series)

Light Fantastic is the title of a television documentary series that explores the phenomenon of light and aired in December 2004 on BBC Four.

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Love

Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure.

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Lucian

Lucian of Samosata (Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal.

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Lucretius

Titus Lucretius Carus (–) was a Roman poet and philosopher. Empedocles and Lucretius are natural philosophers.

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Magna Graecia

Magna Graecia is a term that was used for the Greek-speaking areas of Southern Italy, in the present-day Italian regions of Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania and Sicily; these regions were extensively populated by Greek settlers starting from the 8th century BC.

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Matter

In classical physics and general chemistry, matter is any substance that has mass and takes up space by having volume.

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Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic.

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Metempsychosis

In philosophy, metempsychosis (μετεμψύχωσις) is the transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death.

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Monism

Monism attributes oneness or singleness to a concept, such as to existence.

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Mount Etna

Mount Etna, or simply Etna (Etna or Mongibello; Muncibbeḍḍu or 'a Muntagna; Aetna; Αἴτνα and Αἴτνη), is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Catania, between the cities of Messina and Catania.

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Neikea

In Greek mythology, the Neikea (Ancient Greek: Νείκεα "Quarrels") were one of the many personifications who, according to Hesiod's Theogony, were the offspring of Eris (Strife) through parthenogenesis.

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Parmenides

Parmenides of Elea (Παρμενίδης ὁ Ἐλεάτης; fl. late sixth or early fifth century BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia. Empedocles and Parmenides are 5th-century BC Greek philosophers, 5th-century BC poets, ancient Greek physicists and philosophers of Magna Graecia.

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Perception

Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.

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Persephone

In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Persephone (Persephónē), also called Kore (the maiden) or Cora, is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter.

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Philotes

In Greek mythology, Philotes (Ancient Greek: Φιλότης) was a minor goddess or spirit (daimones) personifying affection, friendship, and sexual intercourse.

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Physics (Aristotle)

The Physics (Greek: Φυσικὴ ἀκρόασις Phusike akroasis; Latin: Physica, or Naturales Auscultationes, possibly meaning "Lectures on nature") is a named text, written in ancient Greek, collated from a collection of surviving manuscripts known as the Corpus Aristotelicum, attributed to the 4th-century BC philosopher Aristotle.

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Physiology

Physiology is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system.

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Plato

Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms. Empedocles and Plato are ancient Greek physicists, natural philosophers and philosophers of love.

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Pre-Socratic philosophy

Pre-Socratic philosophy, also known as Early Greek Philosophy, is ancient Greek philosophy before Socrates.

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Pythagoras

Pythagoras of Samos (Πυθαγόρας; BC) was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. Empedocles and Pythagoras are 5th-century BC Greek philosophers and ancient Greek shamans.

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Pythagoreanism

Pythagoreanism originated in the 6th century BC, based on and around the teachings and beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans.

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Reincarnation

Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.

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Respiration (physiology)

In physiology, respiration is the movement of oxygen from the outside environment to the cells within tissues, and the removal of carbon dioxide in the opposite direction to the surrounding environment.

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Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of persuasion.

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Right to die

The right to die is a concept based on the opinion that human beings are entitled to end their life or undergo voluntary euthanasia.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.

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Simplicius of Cilicia

Simplicius of Cilicia (Σιμπλίκιος ὁ Κίλιξ; c. 480 – c. 540) was a disciple of Ammonius Hermiae and Damascius, and was one of the last of the Neoplatonists.

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Sphere

A sphere (from Greek) is a geometrical object that is a three-dimensional analogue to a two-dimensional circle.

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Strasbourg papyrus

The Strasbourg papyrus is a papyrus made of six fragments on a single leaf written in Greek and conserved at the National Academic Library in Strasbourg, cataloged Gr.

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Sweat gland

Sweat glands, also known as sudoriferous or sudoriparous glands,, are small tubular structures of the skin that produce sweat.

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The Death of Empedocles

The Death of Empedocles (Der Tod des Empedokles) is an unfinished theatrical play by Friedrich Hölderlin.

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The Story of Civilization

The Story of Civilization (1935–1975), by husband and wife Will and Ariel Durant, is an 11-volume set of books covering both Eastern and Western civilizations for the general reader, with a particular emphasis on European (Western) history.

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Vacuum

A vacuum (vacuums or vacua) is space devoid of matter.

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Vegetarianism

Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects, and the flesh of any other animal).

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Water (classical element)

Water is one of the classical elements in ancient Greek philosophy along with air, earth and fire, in the Asian Indian system Panchamahabhuta, and in the Chinese cosmological and physiological system Wu Xing.

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Water clock

A water clock or clepsydra is a timepiece by which time is measured by the regulated flow of liquid into (inflow type) or out from (outflow type) a vessel, and where the amount of liquid can then be measured.

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Western philosophy

Western philosophy, the part of philosophical thought and work of the Western world.

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Will Durant

William James Durant (November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981) was an American historian and philosopher, best known for his 11-volume work, The Story of Civilization, which contains and details the history of Eastern and Western civilizations.

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Zeus

Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empedocles

Also known as Anbaduqlis, Empedeocles, Empedoclean, Empedocles of Acagras, Empedocles of Acragas, Empedocles of Agrigentum, Empedocles of Akragas, Empedokles, Impeticles, Katharmoi, Love and Strife, On Nature (Empedocles), Sphere of Empedocles, .

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Empedocles, the Glossary

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430s BC deaths

490s BC births

5th-century BC Greek philosophers

5th-century BC poets

Ancient Acragantines

Ancient Greek physicists

Ancient Greek shamans

Mount Etna

Philosophers of Magna Graecia

Philosophers of love

Pluralist philosophers

Presocratic philosophers

Sicilian Greeks

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