Biography

Zeno's life started in Elea, Greece in about 490 BCE. He was the son of Teleutagoras, but for some reason he was the adopted son of Parmenides. I believe that the reason why he was adopted was because his father probably died when he was very young therefore he was put up for adoption. He spent most of his life in Elea, but frequently took trips to Athens to study. As Zeno grew older he attended the Eleatic School of Works which was founded by Parmenides. At that school he not only excelled in his classes, but he started to explore the fields of mathematics and dialectic. He finished school and started exploring the doctrines of Parmenides in which his chief object was to justify the misenterpretation of philosophical speculation from the ordinary modes of thought(also known as dialectic). He then created a series of his own works which was known as his paradoxes which werea set of problems generally thought to have been created to support Parmenides’s doctrine that "all is one". Although much of Zeno of Elea's work's content are well known, there is no existence of his written work. Zeno is said to have perished in about 430 BCE because he was arrested and killed by a tyrant of Elea, or some say that "Zeno attempted to kill the tyrant Demylus, and failing to do so, with his own teeth bit off his tongue, he spit it in the tyrant’s face". This picture is handrawn probably in charcoal. The charcoal exhibits the heartiness and authenticity of Zeno. []
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