# Empedocles — The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers character guide

> Empedocles in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the wise Empedocles

**First appearance:** 0073-empedocles

## Who they are

Pre-Socratic philosopher who proposed the four classical elements.

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