Astro*Dictionary by Michael Erlewine
1 article for "Parmenides"
Parmenides [Astro*Index](pahr-men'ih-deez)
(BC540-?) Born at Elia, Italy, he became the first major Greek philosopher born on Italian soil.
A follower of Pythagoras and Xenophanes, he held that the senses were not to be trusted over reason. He founded the Eleatic School where he taught Zeno, who evolved a set of paradoxes on the senses.
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