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Alchemy

The Poem of Empedocles

by Brad Inwood · Brad Inwood (trans.)

A text and English translation of the surviving fragments of Empedocles, including the Strasbourg papyrus in the revised edition, with an introduction to his doctrines of the four roots, Love and Strife, the cosmic cycle and the transmigration of the soul. The standard English starting point for reading Empedocles himself.

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