
Review: Early Greek Philosophy by John Burnet
Nature and the Nation
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Parmenides
Parmenides comes from a world of mythological think he describes his poem in mythological terms. He doesn't name the goddess, at least not in the fragments that we have. It's suspected, and i guess widely acknowledge tht there's probably quite a bit more to this. I think it's plato saw sono putting the words in socrates mouth, that parmenides told stories about the gods. That's one of the things we know about.
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