《恩培多克勒之死》是由知名导演達尼埃爾·于伊耶 讓-馬裏·斯特勞布 执导的一部劇情片，威廉姆·伯格 Georg Brintrup 霍華德 等倾情出演，该片讲述了： The subject of Danièle Huillet and J ean-Marie Straub’s Der Tod des Empedok les ( The Death of Emped ocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-Socra tic philosopher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who lived in t he G reek colony of Agri gentum in S icily. His theories are mention ed in several of Plato’s dialogu es. He mainta ined that all matter is made up of four irreduc ible eleme nts: wate r, earth, air and fire. A mystic and a poet, he i s considered to be t he founder of classical rh etoric. He is also th ough t to be the last Greek philosopher to write in v erse; two fragme nts of his works survive : Katharmoi (Purifications) and Pe ri Phu seôs (On Nat ure). An advocate of democracy, he came into conflict with his f ellow ci tizens of Agrigentum and, as result, w as banished with his young disciple, Pausaniu s. When he was asked to ret urn, h e preferred to c ommit suicide by thro wing himself into the active volcano at M ount Aetna. The Ger man writer Friedrich Hölderlin wrote two versions of Der Tod des Empedokles in 1798 and 1800, and a fin al th ird versio n in 182 0, all th ree ultimatel y unfinished. They were conceived as five-act tragedies and al l three d iffe r in plot . Accordi ng to Michael Ham burger, Hölderlin’s English-langu age translator, the main reason why Hölderlin f inished no versi on of the pla y mu st be th at he remained too clos ely i dentified with Emp edocles, at the ver y period i n his life when h is own view of th e poet as philosopher, prophet and pr iest – and as tragi c hero – was subje ct to perpet ual crisis and re-examination. Huil let-Strau b’s The Death of Empedocles is b ased on Hölderl in’s first v ersion (the long est of the three), whereas B lack Sin is based on the third version. 说到这里，木头人顿了顿，“你可能不知道，我主人一直怀 疑，他们之中，有早就到这方宇宙的佐蒙人潜伏。他说，那个人智计无双 ，大家一直查不到他，可能是因为，那人的修 为远在他们之上，是对 方隐藏起来的第三位圣者。”
