Download or read book Empedocles' Cosmic Cycle written by Denis O'Brien and published by London : Cambridge U.P. This book was released on 1969-04-02 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cosmic cycle described in the surviving fragments of Empedocles' poem is the alternation, in endless succession, of Love and Strife. Dr O'Brien's book is primarily an analysis of this elaborate system. It seeks to determine the positions which Love and Strife occupy in the world at different times.