恩培(%]多克勒之死
剧情简介
The subject of D!?/anièle# Huillet *!+and Je an-Mari _]e Straub’s D er Tod des Emp,edokles (The Death of Empedo.)+cl@es,@ 19:87) is the Greek*(# pre- ##Socrat ,!^ic philoso_) ^pher Emp!edocles (=c. 49$0 BC ?` – 4 ;30 BC), who live d i, n th`e Gr] ;e!ek/ c_ol*ony o-[:f Agri@ gentum in Sici./$ ly. His theories are mentioned in s\,everal[: of Plato’s . dial[=ogues. He maint/=ained !t%.hat all^@^ matter is made (;up of)^ four irred^:ucible e!,le :ments: (+ water, earth, -? !a=` #ir and fire. A mystic and a poet, he is co .nsi)^.dered to [ be the founder ` of classical- rhetoric + .^! He is also th?^`!o? ug ht(-) to b e t=he last _ Greek p/ hilo:. soph]_(er to ?[\write in.` ver.!se*?` tw o fragment+s of h(is wor!ks s urvive% : :`K-\%atharmoi (Pur@),ifi):*cations) and Peri *) P [h[useôs (On: Natur/ e) `?. [@#An advocate.- of *democracy; , he c#ame,\ into c`+ onflict -@(#with #his fe?l^low c] itizens of Agrigen,( tum@ and), as r/ ?esult, was -]banishe@^]d with hi?+s young di,+sci=$] ple, Pausanius. %-When he was^ as?^ked to retu /rn, he preferr,.$.ed to commit !su i\ ^,c:=)]id?e by):/. throwing himself` into the ac%+!tive -*v+[;olca%no at Mo^ -unt Aetna. The German writer Fr% iedr/ i^ch Höl_@+,derl !i?: n wrote two ve;rsi_ ons o;*)f Der Tod des Empedo @k/)les in 1798 and 1800, and@.: a final thir:;d versi;]*on*,@/ #.in 182#+0, *all three ult -)imately un?/%finished. @They wer-,)e co^! nceived`? as five-act */ trag=edies an)/d )all three )%di$=*f fer + in plot. A!ccordi$*ng ];)to::- Mic%\ %h^,!ael Hamb[ urger, ;Hölderli n’s Englis/h-,+languag;\,e translator, the m+#a@ =in reason why !+$:Hölderlin% ! fini *- shed no ve=^ rsion o*!f the play must be !that he remaine [d too \^.c `-los: -ely identified with Empedocles, a/ t the very ]*per[! iod ; in his life %\^ w :^hen !his o@ $ wn` view of the poet as % [philosopher, .+proph @ et and; [ $-p;# riest – and as tragic hero – was) subject _ to perpe,tual crisis %and =* re-exami]nat`ion. H - uillet-Straub’s The Death %]of^ E [m !ped#ocles /)is bas $ed o[ n Hö\##lde rlin’s fir),st )v*e rsi^on (the longest #^ of the t@`hree), wherea^\;+s Bl%`ack S![in is b ased( ?_#on t!(he % @ third ve%_;rsio`n.