Note 504 — Chapter V · EMPEDOKLES OF AKRAGAS

See Diels, “Empedokles und Gorgias,” 2 (Berl. Sitzb., 1884). Theophrastos said that Empedokles was born “not long after Anaxagoras” (Dox. p. 477, 17); and Alkidamas made him the fellow-pupil of Zeno under Parmenides, and the teacher of Gorgias (see below, p. 231, n. 5). Now Gorgias was a little older than Antiphon (b. Ol. LXX.), so it is clear we must go back at least to 490 B.C. for the birth of Empedokles.