person
Parmenides of Elea
Parmenides
also: Parmenides Eleates
The early-fifth-century BC founder of the Eleatic school and author of a philosophical poem on Being. Cicero mocks his ring of fiery light girdling the heavens (the stephane) as a divinity.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of the Gods §1.28 a ring resembling a crown
Parmenides of Elea pictured a band of fiery light (the stephane, a garland) girdling the heavens and called it god. Cotta finds in it neither divine shape nor sense.