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Parmenides of Elea, fl. 6th century BC. The best-known of the Eleatic school of early Greek thinkers, and a foundational influence in classical Western thought. He compiled his philosophy in a narrative poem which survives only as fragments.

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• Myth - Parmenides

  http://www.stenudd.com/greekphilosophers/parmenides.htm
  overview of Parmenides' philosophy. By Stefan Stenudd.

• Negation in Ancient Greek Philosophy: Parmenides

  http://www.pacitti.org/books_00199104.htm
  Analysis of negation and nonbeing in Parmenides by Prof Domenico Pacitti. Contains Greek text and critical revaluation of recent scholarship.

• Parmenides

  http://www.iep.utm.edu/parmenid/
  Article from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy which discusses the various divisions of Parmenides' poem On Nature.

• Parmenides

  http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/parm1.htm
  Two lectures by S. Marc Cohen on this thinker, part of a series of lectures on early Greek philosophy. Considers his response to the great issues of Presocratic philosophy.

• Parmenides' Way of Truth

  http://www.ontology.co/parmenides.htm
  A bibliography and a selection of critical judgements on Parmenides' Poem.

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