Abstract
This article examines the relationship between Hesiod and Empedocles through a comparative analysis of the Prometheus and Pandora myth and the Queen Cypris narrative. The author sustains that correspondences between the works of Hesiod and Empedocles can be interpreted through the framework of overlapping narrative structures, which would help to establish the order of the fragments. The relationship between Empedocles and Hesiod is polemic due to the fact that they belong to rival schools of wisdom. In the case of Empedocles, that school emanated from the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi.
Highlights
The exact nature of the relationship between Empedocles and Hesiod has been the subject of eternal debate among scholars
This article examines the relationship between Hesiod and Empedocles through a comparative analysis of the Prometheus and Pandora myth and the Queen Cypris narrative
The author sustains that correspondences between the works of Hesiod and Empedocles can be interpreted through the framework of overlapping narrative structures, which would help to establish the order of the fragments
Summary
The exact nature of the relationship between Empedocles and Hesiod has been the subject of eternal debate among scholars. In Empedocles, is not a fire, but it occupies the space of the fire of Zeus in the narrative of Cypris the Queen This leads us to the third sequence, the theft of fire, which the good son of Iapetus hides within a hollow fennel stalk to give to men. The fourth sequence in Hesiod’s narrative is the myth of Pandora, and it is possible that Empedocles, continuing to pursue his objective of inverting the logic of the narrative, presented an episode in which Cypris, instead of forging woman as a poisoned gift, did so with the intention of returning the spark of love that Strife had taken from men. Given that we know perfectly well that in his poem Empedocles presents the process by
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