PHILOSOPHER

Zeno of Elea

490 BC - 425 BC

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Zeno of Elea (; Ancient Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεᾱ́της; c. 490 – c. 430 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea, in Southern Italy (Magna Graecia). He was a student of Parmenides and one of the Eleatics. Zeno defended his instructor's belief in monism, the idea that only one single entity exists that makes up all of reality. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zeno of Elea has received more than 1,317,894 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Zeno of Elea is the 57th most popular philosopher (down from 50th in 2019), the 75th most popular biography from Italy (down from 51st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Italian Philosopher.

Zeno of Elea is most famous for his paradoxes, which are a series of arguments that purport to show that motion is impossible.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Zeno of Elea ranks 57 out of 1,267. Before him are Anaxagoras, Plotinus, Michel Foucault, Thomas More, Henri Bergson, and Karl Popper. After him are Mikhail Bakunin, Epictetus, Herbert Spencer, Michel de Montaigne, Ibn Arabi, and Pliny the Elder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 490 BC, Zeno of Elea ranks 3. Before him are Empedocles, and Phidias. After him are Nehemiah, Bacchylides, Archelaus I of Macedon, Agis II, Crateuas of Macedon, Hellanicus of Lesbos, Ion of Chios, Nepherites I, and Oenopides. Among people deceased in 425 BC, Zeno of Elea ranks 2. Before him is Herodotus. After him is Achilles Painter.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Zeno of Elea ranks 75 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Julius II (1443), Sophia Loren (1934), Luciano Pavarotti (1935), Titus (41), Lucrezia Borgia (1480), and Vitruvius (-75). After him are Mark Antony (-83), Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (-600), Giotto (1267), Ennio Morricone (1928), Catherine de' Medici (1519), and Giorgio Vasari (1511).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Italy

Among philosophers born in Italy, Zeno of Elea ranks 7. Before him are Niccolò Machiavelli (1469), Thomas Aquinas (1225), Parmenides (-501), Maria Montessori (1870), Empedocles (-490), and Lucretius (-94). After him are Pliny the Elder (23), Antonio Gramsci (1891), Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463), Boethius (480), Tommaso Campanella (1568), and Bonaventure (1221).

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