msand3's review
4.0
Empedocles' philosophy of opposites, elemental cosmology, and reincarnation make him feel more akin to Eastern philosophy, yet his work is undeniably an essential part of the Western tradition. On a purely poetic level, his fragments seem more interesting for their influence (i.e. how they were interpreted by later writers) than for how they read alone. But that's surely because so little remains of the original text.
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