John Palmer develops and defends a modal interpretation of Parmenides, according to which he was the first philosopher to distinguish in a rigorous manner the fundamental modalities of necessary being
Mourelatos’ study of the fragments of Parmenides’ poem combines traditional philological reconstruction with the approaches of literary criticism and philosophical analysis in order to reveal the thou
Parmenides of Elea was the most important and influential philosopher before Plato. Patricia Curd here reinterprets Parmenides' views and offers a new account of his relation to his predecessors and
Parmenides was likely written within the last two decades preceding Plato's death in 347 BCE. Despite two millennia of documented commentary, scholars struggle to make sense of it. Almost every major
The seminars were held at six annual meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature, and the first volume that emerged from them highlights the dissolution of traditionally rather firm boundaries for
This is the first English translation of Proclus' commentary on Plato's Parmenides. Glenn Morrow's death occurred while he was less than halfway through the translation, which was completed by John Di
