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Western Esotericism: History & Scholarship

The Presocratic Philosophers

by G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven & M. Schofield

The classic critical history of Greek philosophy before Socrates, giving the Greek fragments with translations and commentary. Its chapter on Empedocles explains the four roots, Love and Strife and the cosmic cycle, and the book as a whole shows the background from which the theory of the four elements emerged.

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