Parmenides’ Allusion to Heraclitus

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Parmenides’ Allusion to Heraclitus
Mackenzie, Tom

From the journal Hermes Hermes, Volume 151, August 2023, issue 3

Published by Franz Steiner Verlag

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Original language: English
Hermes 2023, pp 259-266
https://doi.org/10.25162/hermes-2023-0022

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This note addresses the longstanding question of whether Parmenides B6.9 should be read as an allusion to Heraclitus B51. It offers a response to some recent objections that have been raised against such a reading, and in particular draws attention to the reception context of both texts, a topic that has been largely overlooked in the scholarship on this issue.

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Tom Mackenzie

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Parmenides | Heraclitus | Allusion | Intertextuality

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