《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 anièle Huillet and Jean-M arie S traub’s De r Tod des Empedokles (The Death of Empedocles, 1987) is the Greek pre-S ocratic philosopher Empedocle s (c. 490 BC – 430 BC), who li ved in the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. His theo ries are mentioned in seve ral of Plato ’s dialogues. He maint ained t hat a ll matt er is made u p of four irreducible elements: water, earth, air and fi re. A my stic and a poet, he is considered to be the founder of classical rhetoric. He is also thou ght to be th e la st Greek phi losop her to write in ve rse; tw o fragmen ts of his works survive: Katharmoi (Purifications) and Peri Phuseôs (On Nat ure). An advo cate of de mocracy, he came into conflict w ith his fellow citizens of Agrigent um and, as resu lt, was bani shed with his young d isci ple, Pausanius. When he was as ked to retur n, he preferred to comm it suicide by throwing himsel f into the acti ve volcano at Moun t Aetna. The German writer Friedrich Hölderli n wrote tw o ver sions of D er Tod des Empedokles i n 1798 and 1800, and a final third version i n 1820, al l three ultimately unfinis hed. They were con ceived as f ive-act tragedie s and all three di ffer in plot. According to Michael H amburge r, Hölderlin’s English-language translator, the m ain rea son why Hölder lin finished n o ver sion of the play mus t be that h e remained t oo closely i dentifie d with Empedocles, at the very period in his life when his own view of the poet as phi loso pher, pr ophet and priest – and as tragic h ero – was su bject to pe rpetual crisi s and re-examination. Hui llet-Straub’s The Death of Empedocles is b ased on Hölder lin’s first version (the longest of the three), w hereas Blac k Sin is based on the t hird versio n. “我又给您装了 两枚美人果，您不管是自己用，还是卖，都是可以 的。”说到这里，她顿 了顿，笑着道：“老祖，那个虎坤 龟的大龟壳实在太大了，我们没人能弄开，所以 ……这活就交给您了，回头您弄好了，赏 我一个趁手的龟盾就行！”
