In the following excerpt, Inwood examines controversies concerning Empedocles's life and works and offers a broad summary of his philosophy.

In the following excerpt, Sedley demonstrates that Lucretius based the proem of his De rerum natura on the work of Empedocles.

In the following essay, Woolford interprets Matthew Arnold's Empedocles on Etna as a philosophical debate between Arnold and Empedocles.

In the following excerpt, Lambridis considers Empedocles's theory of sensation, explains his limited trust in knowledge, and evaluates his work strictly on its poetic merit.

In the following essay, Pratt examines Matthew Arnold's response to Empedocles's legendary suicide.

In the following essay, Kingsley explains Empedocles's views regarding astronomical matters and discusses why they were misunderstood by Theophrastus.

In the following essay, Van Der Ben comments on certain aspects of a recently discovered Empedoclean papyrus and on how it may enable scholars to better resolve problematic areas of previously known Empedoclean texts.

In the following excerpt, Kingsley argues that prior evaluations of Empedocles, particularly those based on Aristotle or Theophrastus, should be discarded in favor of new, less problematic perspectives.

In the following essay, originally written in 1975, McLuhan explores Empedocles's influence on poets T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats, particularly in the preference for auditory imagery and “double truths.”

In the following excerpt, Lombardo provides an overview of Empedocles's subject matter in his poetry.