Parmenides of Elea is most known for his short and fragmented poem titled “Nature”. He is regarded as “one of the most significant of the pre-Socratic philosophies.” (Biography Base) He was born in the Greek colony of Elea, Italy in the year 515 and died in 450 BC. Parmenides was the student of Xenophanes of Colophon, whom influenced his philosophy greatly. Parmenides founded the School of Elea, which Zeno (who was much younger than Parmenides) attended. His fellow citizens of Elea were very fond
Zeno of Elea was a Greek philosopher and a mathematician. Zeno is particularly known for his paradoxes that helped build both mathematics and logic, they specifically targeted the concepts of continuity and infinity. Zeno was born in 495 BCE and died in 430 BCE. In his lifetime he contributed some great things to the subject of math. He studied at the Eleatic School, a leading school in Greek philosophy. He is said to have been a good friend of the philosopher Parmenides. After his studies he went
Parmenides Parmenides was a Pre-Socratic philosopher who lived from 515-445 B.C. He was born in Elea (now Velia), a Greek city in southern Italy. His city was at the far end of the known world on the other side of Greece where Heraclitus and the Ionians lived. He escaped his town to study in Athens, the center of the known world. Most likely he was a student of Anaximander and was also influenced greatly by the teachings of Pythagoras. Parmenides joined the religious and philosophical following
When you think of a hero, you might think of a strong man with powers, but that's not all a hero can be. In the novel Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garca McCall, five sisters go on a journey from Texas to Mexico and back, growing their bond closer. Juanita, the second-oldest sister, has mental strength, which is her intelligence and stubborn mind, which help the girls throughout the story. Her smarts and stubbornness help multiple times in the story, and I'm going to show four examples of
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