PARMENIDES OF ELEA: FRAGMENTS A Text and Translation with an Introduction

Parmenides; David Gallop

ISBN 10: 0802024432 / ISBN 13: 9780802024435

Published by University of Toronto Press, 1984

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Douglas LePan's signature on titlepage with some of his marginalia on a few pages in black ink and his underlining on a few pages else Fine. ; Parmenides of Elea (5th century BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, a Greek city on the Southern coast of Italy. He is reported to have been a student of Xenophanes. He is one of the most significant of the pre-Socratic philosophers. He argued that the every day perception of reality of the physical world (The Way of Seeming) is mistaken; and that the reality of the world is 'One Being' (the Way of Truth) : an unchanging, ungenerated, indestructible whole. He was the founder of the Eleatic school, which also included Zeno of Elea and Melissus. ; Phoenix Supplementary Volume XVIII; 144 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: PARMENIDES OF ELEA: FRAGMENTS A Text and Translation with an Introduction
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802024432
• ISBN 13: 9780802024435
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Classical Studies
  • Epigraphy & Papyrology
  • Greek Literature
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

David Gallop provides a Greek text and a new facing-page translation of the extant fragments of Parmenides' philosophical poem. He also includes the first complete translation into English of the contexts in which the fragments have been transmitted to us, and of the ancient testimonia regarding Parmenides' life and thought. All of the fragments have been translated in full and are arranged in the order that has become canonical since the publication of the fifth edition of Diels-Rranz's Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. Alternative renderings are provided for passages whose meaning is disputed or where major questions of interpretation hinge upon the text or translation adopted.

In an extended introductory essay, Gallop offers guidance on the background of the poem, and a continuous exposition of it, together with a critical discussion of its basic argument. The volume also includes an extensive bibliography, a glossary of key terms in the poem, and a section on sources and authorities.

About the Author

David Gallop is Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus) at Trent University