Abstract

Wright's book has four parts: an introduction, in which she presents and discusses evidence regarding Empedocles' life, attempts to reconstruct the teachings offered in his Physics and Katharmoi, introduces rules for allocating fragments to one or the other of these two poems, discusses their traditional titles, and provides concordances; a presentation of the extant fragments, together with their immediate contexts and a full critical apparatus; a translation of each fragment together with a commentary; indices of sources, of words occurring in the fragments, of ancient texts cited in the introduction and commentary, and of "names and things."