The Death of Empedocles: A Mourning-Play by Friedrich Hölderlin

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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 w...

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