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12 hours ago · According to Diogenes Laertius, the Pre-Socratic philosopher from Sicily, who, in one of his surviving poems, declared himself to have become a "divine being... no longer mortal", tried to prove he was an immortal god by leaping into Mount Etna, an active volcano. The Roman poet Horace also alludes to this legend. Sophocles: c. 406 BC
