the ordeal, Empedocles survives and continues his life on the Moon, surviving on dew.

Burnet states that, although Empedocles likely did not die in Sicily, both general versions of the story (one in which he kills himself, the other in which he discovers he's the first man to survive leaving Earth) could be easily accepted by ancient writers, as there was no local tradition to contradict them.

Empedocles's death is the subject of Friedrich Hölderlin's play Der Tod des Empedokles

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