The Death of Empedocles: A Mourning-Play

By Friedrich Hölderlin

Book Overview

The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of H lderlin's poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.

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 with translations of H lderlin's essays on the theory of tragedy. David Farrell Krell gives readers a brief chronology of H lderlin's life, an introduction to the life and thought of Empedocles-including H lderlin's Empedocles-detailed explanatory notes, and an analysis of the play and the theoretical essays, allowing for a full appreciation of this classic of world literature and philosophy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791476480
• ISBN13: 9780791476482
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher