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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Parmenides was born to a wealthy family in Elea, a Greek colony in southern Italy, sometime between 540 and 515 BC. He wrote a single philosophical poem in dactylic hexameter, now often called On Nature, which survives in fragments but with unusual integrity for a pre-Socratic work. In it he prescribes two views: the way of truth, where all reality is one and unchanging, and the way of opinion, where the senses deceive. His student Zeno of Elea developed his famous paradoxes of motion to defend Parmenides's claims. Plato featured him in a dialogue, visiting Athens at 65 when Socrates was young, and carried his ideas forward into the foundation of Western metaphysics. He is considered the founder of ontology and of the Eleatic school, and his questions about time still surface in contemporary philosophy.