The poetics of Parmenides and its new world-image
Keywords:
Parmenides of Elea, Epic (literary genre), SpaceAbstract
The aim of this paper is to provide an elucidation about Parmenides’ choice of composing a poem in dactylic hexameters, even though the form of prose is already available at his time. With an analysis of its first verses we recognize that the Poem does not simply entertain an organic relation to its traditional contexts, but presents a dynamics of anticipations and ressignifications that reveals the dialectic between novelty and tradition.References
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