Statue Of A Girl (kore) dedicated on the Athenian Acropolis about 520-510 B.C. Probably Ionian
(Chian) work.
Like Heraclitus, Empedocles endeavoured to integrate his teaching about the fortunes of the soul in a
general theory of cosmology involving cyclical changes over vast periods of time. Everything in the
world is produced by the mixture and separation of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, which
Empedocles identifies with certain of the traditional gods. Xenophanes, as we saw, rejected Homer's
gods, so much prey to love and strife. At about the same period one Theagenes from Rhegium developed