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A.G. Long and Barbara M. Sattler, eds., Parmenides: New Perspectives, Oxford University Press, 2025, 218pp., $100.00 (hbk) ISBN 9780198909118.

Reviewed by Daniel W. Graham, Brigham Young University

This volume offers ten essays on the philosophy of Parmenides, presenting different viewpoints on perhaps the most influential and challenging Presocratic philosopher. The essays by leading international scholars deal with issues ranging from Parmenides’ use of mythological allusions to his argumentation and the impact of later thinkers on the interpretation of his thought. In “The Way out of the World: How Parmenides Played with the Cosmology of Early Greek Poetry” (1-20), Arnaud Macé examines the mythological setting of Parmenides’ poem, in which the unnamed youth is welcomed by the daughters of Helios at the gates of the House of Night....