The Death of Empedocles

The Death of EmpedoclesThe definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hlderlin's poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays. On the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich Hlderlin composed three versions of a dramatic poem on the suicide of the early Greek thinker, Empedocles of Acragas. This book offers the first complete translation of the three versions, along with translations of Hlderlin's essays on the theory

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