Place

Elea

Magna Graecia · Modern Italy

A Greek colony in southern Italy. Home to Parmenides, who argued that change itself is an illusion and only Being is real.

Thinkers Connected to Elea

c. 515 BCE – c. 450 BCE

What is, is. What is not, cannot be thought. Change is an illusion.

c. 495 BCE – c. 430 BCE

Achilles can never catch the tortoise. Motion is impossible. He invented the paradox as a philosophical weapon.