Empedocles

Empedocles was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and a native citizen of Akragas, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is known best for originating the cosmogonic theory of the four classical elements. He also proposed forces he called Love and Strife which would mix and separate the elements, respectively.

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Who was born first?

• Empedocles was born 2 years after Sophocles
• Empedocles was born 4 years before Zeno of Elea
• Empedocles was born 4 years before Protagoras
• Empedocles was born 4 years after Hippodamus of Miletus
• Empedocles was born 6 years after Fan Li

Timeline

1. Fan Li500–448 BC
2. Hippodamus of Miletus498–408 BC
3. Sophoclescirca 496 BC – circa 406 BC
4. Empedocles (this page)circa 494 BC – circa 434 BC
5. Protagorascirca 490 BC – circa 420 BC
6. Zeno of Eleacirca 490 BC – circa 425 BC

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