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The s,`?ubject of D:[anièle Huillet a]*nd. `Jean-M %a[/ rie S_trau)b’s Der.: To)d des Em]pedokles (The De* ath of = Empe docles, 1987)@ is, the$+ G*(] r eek pre-Socratic ph %! ilo(sopher =?Em(p*edo ?cles (c. 490 BC – 430 ]@`BC),] who= + l/`ived in the Greek co^lony` - of Ag; /rige!.!ntum in S)@ ici# ly. % His theories are ment i`]one,d *in se=v-er^al of Plat (,o’_ s d-!ialo+g@ ues. He mai?%ntai :ned* that a!ll matter is @m]ade up of four irr/)educible elements;) w$ate+`r, e+. art +h, ai_r and fir: ?e. ;*`A ^=mystic* and a\+ poet, h. e is c.`onsidered to be t :he f ounder of c.)las;;sical rhetoric. =He i\$s also thought t o @ b* e the:` -^l;ast Gree \-k philosopher to w.#`rite ]\\.in verse; @two fragments of#? hi?[-,s wor=[ks su-)rvi?(v= e : ](Kath=armoi (.[Purificati+,. o$*ns) and P_ eri Phu]seôs (On Nat _(ure). An /advoc( *ate+# of dem _/o- cracy, he \came into con flict with-?? his fe.@llow citizen (s; of A\(grigentum and, a-s res^$ ult, was banished;! w+)ith his young disciple@, .@,\Pa`=usanius. [When he wa ` /s;; as`][ked to retu[@rn @, he preferred to commit suicide by t ?hrowing himself into the a*^=ctive volcano at Mount ` Ae.!\t?na. The- Ge%]rman wri%^ter Friedr] i -ch Hölderlin wrote two vers;ions o $f Der T^?od des Emp:`edokles i.*n 179%$ ;8 and: 1;.800, and ^! a final!# thi^rd versio(!n in 18% /20, all @= thre! [+e ultimately unfin@;\ished. T=hey were conceived as fiv[e-act tragedies and all+! thr ee differ # in pl%- ot. According +:to M( ic% hae_=l $ Ham-=\!burger, H,=^öl) derlin’s En/glish-lang-(+)uage tr+ ]a^!nsl+ator, the m ain /reason why Höld_.erl) in ]=fi /nished n\o vers@ion of ? the play must be t%ha)t he remained too closely :?identi+`f;ie:d with Em\$pedocles, )$ a)`t th(^\e ,very period in his lif!;;e [[when., his .own*-%;; view of the #`poet as philosopher, prophet and + /priest –* #. and = as tragic hero *– was subje ct to pe,rpetual cri; ]+#sis and re-e[$:xamination. Huille@t-S =tr^aub’s The Death of]%= E+mpedocles is based :://on Hölderlin’s first (version (the/\ longest of the three), wherea?s Black Sin is based on the t!hi=[rd version.