Description
Parmenides was a philosopher, healer, and spiritual guide in fifth-century BC Elea, a Greek outpost on the western coast of Italy.
Around 450 BC he traveled to Athens where he and a young Socrates engaged in a debate on the nature of reality, later immortalized by Plato in the “Parmenides”. Richard Gledard’s fresh translation and inspiring account brings new life and contemporary understanding to Parmenides, allowing us to understand his thought and to learn what it meant to live “a Parmenidean life”
