A. Parmenides was a native in Elea, in the south of Italy, and flourished in the first half of the fifth century B.C.
B. According to Plato, Socrates in his youth had an interviewwith Parmenides, then an old man, and learnt much from him.
C. Whether or not this interview ishistorical, we may at least infer, what is otherwise evident, that Plato himself was influenced by thedoctrines of Parmenides.
D. The south Italian and Sicilian philosophers were more inclined to mysticismand religion than those of Ionia, who were on the whole scientific and sceptical in their tendency.
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