 A younger contemporary of Anaxagoras, Empedocles, who lived in Sicily, also recognized the force of Parmenides’ arguments against coming-to-be and passing-away. (Empedocles also adopts Parmenides’ poetic meter in order to tell his story.) Empedocles proposes a cosmos formed of the four roots (as he calls them), earth, water, air, and fire along with the motive forces of Love and Strife. It is often claimed that, for Empedocles, Love simply produces mixture and Strife only causes separation. Empedocles’ view is more complicated, for both forces mix and separate. Love unites opposed (unlike) things by pulling apart and then mixing these unlikes, while Strife sets unlikes in opposition and segregates them, hence Strife mixes like with like. Just as painters can produce fantastically lifelike scenes just by mixing colors, so the operations of Love and Strife, using just the four roots can produce “trees and men and women, and beasts and birds and water-nourished fish, and long-lived gods best in honors” (31B17). These are the things that Empedocles calls “mortal,” and he even provides recipes. DK31B73/LM22D73 tells how Kypris (the goddess Aphrodite, i.e. love) fashions shapes (or kinds): “she moistened earth in rain, and gave it to quick fire to harden.” DK31B96/LM44D192 gives a recipe for bones; flesh and blood both have the same recipe (earth, water, air, and fire in equal proportions), but differ in the refinement of the mixture (DK31B98/LM44D58a and D190). 