《恩培多克勒之死》是由知名导演達尼埃爾·于伊耶 讓-馬裏·斯特勞布 执导的一部劇情片，威廉姆·伯格 Georg Brintrup 霍華德 等倾情出演，该片讲述了：　　The subject of D anièl e Huill  et and J ean-Marie Straub ’s Der Tod des Empedok les (The Death  of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek p re-Soc ratic philoso pher Empedocles (c. 490 BC – 430  BC), who lived in  the  Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His the ories are mentioned in several of Plato’s dial ogues. He m ainta ined tha t all matter is m ade up o  f four irr educ ible elements: water, earth, air and fire.  A mystic an d a poet, he is considered t o be the  founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thought to be  the l ast G  reek ph iloso pher to write i n verse; t wo fragments of his  works survive : Katharmoi (Purifications) an d Peri Phuseôs ( On Nature). An  advoca te of democracy , he came into conflict with his fell ow citizens of Agrigentum and, as result, was banished with his young  disciple, Pa usanius. Whe  n he was asked to  retur n, he preferred to co mmit suicide by th rowing himself into th e active volcano at M ount Aet na.　 　The Ger man writer Friedri ch Hölderli n wrote two  versions of Der Tod des Emp edokles in 1798 and 1800, and a final third  vers ion in 1820, all three ultimately unfinished. They were  conceived as five-act tr agedies and all thr ee diffe r in plot. According  to Michae l Hamburger, Hö lderlin’s  English- language translator,　　the main reason  why Hölde rlin finished no v  ersion of the play must be that he remained too clo sely identified with Em  pedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view o  f the poet as philosopher, prophet and  priest – and  as tragic  hero – wa s su bject to per  petual crisis and re -examination.　　Huillet-Straub’s T he Death of Empedo cles is base d on Hölder lin’s  first versi  on (th e longest of the three), wh  ereas Black Sin is based on th e th ird version. 　　安画有些意兴阑珊 地摘下一 个储物戒指，“驻地里的传送宝盒  被洪叔带走了，这件事，我已经给你们在天音嘱秘密留言了，所以，他那边失却 的东西，我管 不了，这里的……是我们收集的各 方资料，你好好看，也许对你有用。”