Zeno of Elea
c. 490 BCE–c. 430 BCE · Elea
Eleatic; devised the paradoxes (Achilles & the tortoise, the arrow) defending Parmenides' One against motion and plurality.
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EleaMagna Graecia (Lucania)
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A Greek colony on the coast of southern Italy (Magna Graecia) where Parmenides and his pupil Zeno founded the Eleatic school, daring to argue that all reality is one and unchanging—and that motion itself is an illusion.
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- Aeschylus· 525 BCE–456 BCE
- Themistocles· 524 BCE–459 BCE
- Pindar· 518 BCE–438 BCE
- Bacchylides· 518 BCE–451 BCE
- Diogenes of Apollonia· 500 BCE–428 BCE
- Anaxagoras· 500 BCE–428 BCE
- Sophocles· 496 BCE–406 BCE
- Empedocles· 495 BCE–435 BCE
- Protagoras· 490 BCE–420 BCE
- Herodotus· 484 BCE–425 BCE
- Gorgias of Leontini· 483 BCE–376 BCE
- Leucippus· 480 BCE–420 BCE
- Hippias of Elis· 480 BCE–415 BCE
- Antiphon· 480 BCE–411 BCE
- Euripides· 480 BCE–406 BCE
- Melissus of Samos· 470 BCE–430 BCE
- Socrates· 470 BCE–399 BCE
- Philolaus of Croton· 470 BCE–385 BCE
- Prodicus· 465 BCE–395 BCE
- Critias· 460 BCE–403 BCE
- Thucydides· 460 BCE–400 BCE
- Hippocrates· 460 BCE–370 BCE
- Aristophanes· 446 BCE–386 BCE
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