Parmenides was a philosopher, healer, and spiritual guide in fifth-century BC Elea, a Greek outpost on the western coast of Italy. Around 450 BC he and a young

This is Volume III of ten in a series on Ancient Philosophy. First published in 1939, it looks at Parmenides' 'Way of Truth' and Plato's 'Parmendies' translated

Michael V. Wedin presents a rigorous reconstruction of the deductions in Parmenides' 'Way of Truth': the most important philosophical treatise before Plato and