Parmenides
514 BC–469 BC
late 6th/early 5th century BC Greek pre-Socratic philosopher
writer · poet · legislator
Born in Velia
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Parmenides:
- Confucius (550 BC–478 BC)
- Sophocles (495 BC–405 BC)
- Pythagoras (582 BC–490 BC)
- Sun Tzu (543 BC–495 BC)
- Aeschylus (524 BC–455 BC)
- Heraclitus (534 BC–470 BC)
- Pericles (493 BC–428 BC)
- Anaxagoras (499 BC–427 BC)