“And this is why, seized with great wickedness, you’ll never rid your heart of sad sufferings” – Empedoclean Sin
Abstract
Empedocles of Acragas showed “the history of sin”. From his poem we may learn what the sin consisted in, what was its cause and consequence, as well as how it might be avoided. Empedocles presents some advice that is supposed to help man stay ‘pure’. The one, who stains his hands with blood or commits perjury – for these are the two aspects of Empedocles’s sin – after his death will be driven out of the country of ‘happy gods’. His daimon will ‘purify’ himself in his subsequent incarnations, and at last he’ll have the honor of seeing the immortals again.
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