This text, as one might expect in a book on ancient philosophy, is heavily flavored with Greek and Latin.
An analysis of the poem of Parmenides from a natural science perspective shows that it is based on Heraclitus' book.
Plato also played a critical role in the development of Western religion, science, and mathematics. Parmenides is a dialogue between Parmenides, Zeno of Elea, and a young Socrates.
The awe with which Plato regarded the character of 'the great' Parmenides has extended to the dialogue which he calls by his name.
Employing his customary method of attack, the reductio ad absurdum, Zeno has argued that if as the pluralists say things are many, then they will be both like and unlike; but this is an impossible situation, for unlike things cannot be like ...
Parmenides: Theaitetos. Sophist. Statesman
But would Plato have been likely to place this in the mouth of the great Parmenides himself, who appeared to him, in Homeric language, to be 'venerable and awful, ' and to have a 'glorious depth of mind'? (Theaet.).