2,000-Year-Old Papyrus Reveals 30 Unknown Verses By Empedocles, A Pre-Socratic Philosopher

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old papyrus fragment, uncovered in the archives of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, Egypt, has gifted us with 30 previously unpublished verses by Empedocles, the pre-Socratic philosopher of the fifth century BCE. Empedocles, an ancient Greek Presocratic philosopher. From Thomas Stanley, (1655), The history of philosophy: containing […]

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2,000-Year-Old Papyrus Reveals 30 Unknown Verses By Empedocles, A Pre-Socratic Philosopher
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A 2,000-year-old papyrus fragment, uncovered in the archives of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, Egypt, has gifted us with 30 previously unpublished verses by Empedocles, the pre-Socratic philosopher of the fifth century BCE. Empedocles, an ancient Greek Presocratic philosopher. From Thomas Stanley, (1655), The history of philosophy: containing […]
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