On the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich H�lderlin 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 H�lderlin's essays on the theory of tragedy. David Farrell Krell gives readers a brief chronology of H�lderlin's life, an introduction to the life and thought of Empedocles-including H�lderlin's Empedocles-detailed explanatory notes, and an analysis of ...
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On the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich H�lderlin 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 H�lderlin's essays on the theory of tragedy. David Farrell Krell gives readers a brief chronology of H�lderlin's life, an introduction to the life and thought of Empedocles-including H�lderlin's Empedocles-detailed explanatory notes, and an analysis of the play and the theoretical essays, allowing for a full appreciation of this classic of world literature and philosophy.
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