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Empedocles (c. 495–435 BCE)
Empedocles was a Presocratic philosopher, poet, and mystic whose theory of cosmogenesis marks his fame. He was born in the ancient Greek city of Akragas (recently renamed Agrigento) on the coast of Sicily. Popular lore claims that Empedocles was offered the ...
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