Empedocles birth and death

          Empedocles' four elements.

          Empedocles death

        1. Empedocles full name
        2. Empedocles' four elements
        3. Empedocles contribution to chemistry
        4. Empedocles contribution to philosophy

          5. Quick Info

          Born
          about BC
          Acragas (now Agrigento, Sicily, Italy)
          Died
          about BC
          Peloponnese, Greece
          Summary
          Empedocles was a Greek philosopher who is best known for his belief that all matter was composed of four elements: fire, air, water, and earth.

          Some have considered him the inventor of rhetoric and the founder of the science of medicine in Italy.

          Biography

          Empedocles was born in Acragas on the south coast of Sicily.

          The name Acragas is Greek, while the Latin name for the town was Agrigentum. Later the town was called Girgenti and more recently it became known by its present name of Agrigento. It was one of the most beautiful cities of the ancient world up to the time it was destroyed by the Carthaginians in BC.

          It was, in Empedocles time, a rich city containing the finest Greek culture.

          Empedocles contribution to atomic theory

          Some of the Pythagoreans had come there after being attacked in their centre at Croton.

          Empedocles was born into a rich aristocratic family. He travelled throughout th