Empedocles was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and a native citizen of Akragas, a Greek city in Sicily. Empedocles' philosophy is known best for originating the cosmogonic theory of the four classical elements. He also proposed forces he called Love and Strife which would mix and separate the elements, respectively.
- Occupation
- physician, philosopher, writer, poet
- Citizenship
- Akragas
- Born
- 490 BC, 494 BC, 492 BC
- Died
- 430 BC, 444 BC, 432 BC, 434 BC
