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The Death of Empedocles
tragedy by Hölderlin
Also known as: “Der Tod des Empedokles”
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- In Friedrich Hölderlin
…Der Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles), the first version of which he nearly completed; fragments of a second and a third version have also survived. Symptoms of great nervous irritability alarmed his family and friends. Nevertheless, the years 1798–1801 were a period of intense creativity; in addition…
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