Like Anaxagoras, Empedocles was very influential, responsible for systematizing the four elements of earth, air, fire, and water. He was also a wonderfully over-the-top wise man, in the style of Pythagoras. He claimed to be an incarnate god capable of working miraculous healing, and he supposedly died by hurling himself into a volcano. Like Socrates, this was a philosopher who knew how to make an exit.
