# Empedocles — Poetry character guide

> Empedocles in Poetry by Matthew Arnold.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Pausanias

**First appearance:** 0057-the-strayed-reveller

## Who they are

A philosopher who debates with Pausanias on the slopes of Etna.

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