Italy

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Parmenides

Parmenides of Elea (c. 500 BCE): one of the pre-Socratic philosophers of ancient Greece. Parmenides Parmenides of Elea was a younger contemporary…

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Phalaris

Phalaris: tyrant of Acragas on Sicily between c.570 and c.554, the proverbial "evil tyrant".The city of Acragas was founded in 580 BCE by people from Gela, a Greek town on Sicily that had been founded more than a century before…

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