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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. He was a student of Parmenides and one of the Eleatics. Born in Elea, 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 1,204,801 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Zeno of Elea is the 50th most popular philosopher (up from 52nd in 2019), the 51st most popular biography from Italy (up from 68th in 2019) and the 5th 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 50 out of 1,081. Before him are Plutarch, Michel de Montaigne, Origen, Al-Farabi, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and John Amos Comenius. After him are Empedocles, Karl Popper, Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, Lucretius, and Plotinus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 490 BC, Zeno of Elea ranks 2. Before him is Phidias. After him are Empedocles, Nehemiah, Bacchylides, Archelaus I of Macedon, Agis II, Hellanicus of Lesbos, Ion of Chios, Nepherites I, Oenopides, and Crateuas of Macedon. 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 51 out of 4,668. Before him are Lorenzo de' Medici (1449), Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598), Mark Antony (-83), Ötzi (-3345), Catherine de' Medici (1519), and Pope Gregory I (540). After him are Pope Pius XII (1876), Evangelista Torricelli (1608), Claudio Monteverdi (1567), Sophia Loren (1934), Empedocles (-490), and Federico Fellini (1920).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Italy

Among philosophers born in Italy, Zeno of Elea ranks 5. Before him are Niccolò Machiavelli (1469), Thomas Aquinas (1225), Parmenides (-501), and Maria Montessori (1870). After him are Empedocles (-490), Lucretius (-94), Pliny the Elder (23), Antonio Gramsci (1891), Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463), Boethius (480), and Tommaso Campanella (1568).

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