id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8175 Parmenides - Wikipedia .html text/html 7652 1162 67 His dates are uncertain; according to doxographer Diogenes Laërtius, he flourished just before 500 BC,[10] which would put his year of birth near 540 BC, but in the dialogue Parmenides Plato has him visiting Athens at the age of 65, when Socrates was a young man, c. This line begins with Xenophenes and goes through Parmenides, Melissus of Samos, Zeno of Elea, Leucippus, Democritus, Protagoras, Nessas of Chios, Metrodorus of Chios, Diogenes of Smyrna, Anaxarchus, and finally Pyrrho.[15] Guthrie (1979), A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 2, The Presocratic Tradition from Parmenides to Democritus, pp. (1979), A History of Greek Philosophy – The Presocratic tradition from Parmenides to Democritus, Cambridge University Press. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8175.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8175.txt