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Acragas

Magna Graecia (Sicily)

A magnificent and immensely wealthy Greek city of southern Sicily—adorned with its still-standing Valley of the Temples—and the home of Empedocles, the philosopher-poet who taught that all things are made of four roots bound and parted by Love and Strife.

Teachers who lived here

Works composed here

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    Empedocles: Fragments & Testimonia

    by Empedocles