{"product_id":"the-death-of-empedocles-a-mourning-play-9780791476482","title":"The Death of Empedocles: A Mourning-Play","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Friedrich Hölderlin | David Farrell Krell | David Farrell Krell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin's poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the eve of his final odes and hymns, Friedrich Hölderlin composed three versions of a dramatic poem on the suicide of the early Greek thinker, Empedocles of Acragas. This book offers the first complete translation of the three versions, along with translations of Hölderlin's essays on the theory of tragedy. David Farrell Krell gives readers a brief chronology of Hölderlin's life, an introduction to the life and thought of Empedocles-including Hölderlin's Empedocles-detailed explanatory notes, and an analysis of the play and the theoretical essays, allowing for a full appreciation of this classic of world literature and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46882070233239,"sku":"9780791476482","price":3736.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780791476482.webp?v=1770233661","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-death-of-empedocles-a-mourning-play-9780791476482","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}