Contents -- 1 Parmenides' Place in Histories of Presocratic Philosophy -- Historical Narrative and Aristotle's Influence -- The Development of Early Greek Philosophy in Guthrie's Narrative -- Advances in Parmenides Interpretation and Modifications of Guthrie's Narrative -- Fundamentals of the Ancient View of Parmenides -- Prospectus for a Modal Reading of Parmenides -- 2 Parmenides' Three Ways -- Parmenides Goes to the Halls of Night -- 'The Only Ways of Inquiry . . .' -- The Russellian Line -- A Modal Interpretation of Parmenides' Ways of Inquiry -- 3 The Way of the Goddess and the Way of Mortals -- Fragment 6: Instructions and Admonition -- Fragment 3: The Availability of What Is for Understanding -- Fragment 7: Further Admonition -- Parmenidean Being -- 4 What Must Be and What Is and Is Not -- The Way of Conviction -- The Cosmology -- The Co-Presence of What Is and What Is and Is Not -- 5 Zeno, Melissus, and Parmenides -- Zeno and Parmenides -- Melissus and Parmenides -- Melissus as an Eristic -- 6 Anaxagoras and Parmenides -- Anaxagoras and his Physical Theory -- Anaxagoras and the Principle of No Becoming -- Anaxagoras and Zeno -- Anaxagoras and Parmenides: The True Correspondence -- 7 Empedocles' Element Theory and Parmenides -- Empedocles' Cosmology -- Parmenides' Purported Influence -- Empedocles' Roots as a 'Plurality of Parmenidean Beings' -- Empedocles' Cosmology and Parmenides' Cosmology -- 8 Parmenides' Place in Presocratic Philosophy -- Parmenides in Retrospect -- Xenophanes, Parmenides, Empedocles -- Parmenides and the Milesians -- Parmenides and Heraclitus -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Fragments of Parmenides' Poem -- Introduction -- Text and Translation of the Fragments -- Textual Notes -- Bibliography -- Index locorum -- A -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- X -- Z -- General index -- A -- B -- C.

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