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The Eleatic school of Philosophy is mainly represented by fournames; Xenophanos, Parmenides, Melissos, and Zeno. Though the first of these is universally regarded as the founder of the school, Parmenides is the most important figure in it, the Eleatic par excellence. His fathers name was Pyrrhes. He himself was a native of Elea or Velia. This city, which was of small importance politically, was founded about B.C. 540 by a colony of Phokaeans. It lay on the western shore of Lucania.

The date of Parmenides' birth is uncertain; but we shall hardly be wrong in placing it in the last quarter of the sixth century B.C. Diogenes Laertius says he flourished about the sixty-ninth Olympiad (B.C. 504-501);but this can hardly be true, if any confidence is to be placed in the statements of Plato. In the dialogue entitled Parmenides we read: Antiphon stated on the authority of Pythodoros that Zeno and Parmenides once came to the greater Panathemea Parmenides being at that time quite an old man with grey hair and a handsome and noble countenance, and certainly not over sixty-five years of age; Zeno about forty years old, tall and elegant,, said to have been the favorite of Parmenides; He mentioned also that they put up at the house of Pythodoros in the Kerameikos, outside the city walls, and that Sokrates and many other persons visited them there, desiring to hear Zeno read his productions, which had then been brought by them for the first time, and that Sokrates was then a very young man. In the Sophist, Sokrates is made to say: "I was present when Parmenides uttered and discussed words of exceeding beauty, I being then a young man, and he already far advanced in years."

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