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Parmenides
Parmenides
515 BCE–445 BCE · Athens
Eleatic philosopher who argued that what-is is one, unchanging, and ungenerated; his poem On Nature decisively framed Greek ontology, prompting Plato's Sophist and Aristotle's Metaphysics.
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EleaMagna Graecia (Lucania)
What they did here
Born at Elea (Velia) in southern Italy c.515 BCE; his floruit (acme c.504-501) is given by Diogenes Laertius 9.23, with Plato (Parmenides 127b) implying a birth around 515 BCE.
About Elea
A Greek colony on the coast of southern Italy (Magna Graecia) where Parmenides and his pupil Zeno founded the Eleatic school, daring to argue that all reality is one and unchanging—and that motion itself is an illusion.