Doctor Faustus and the Devils of Empedocles

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STEGGLE, Matthew (2009). Doctor Faustus and the Devils of Empedocles. Notes and Queries, 56 (4), 544-547. [Article]

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THIS note is about the Renaissance reception of a small and seemingly rather obscure fragment of classical Greek philosophical poetry: a passage from the largely lost work of Empedocles, surviving only through quotations of it by the late-classical writer Plutarch.

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http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/content/56/4/544.full

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Humanities Research Centre

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544-547

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Identification Number:

10.1093/notesj/gjp213

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8958-8055