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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About Elea
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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