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This study offers a new interpretation of the poem of the founder of Western philosophy: Parmenides. It shows that there is more in his poem than the description of Being by means of negative adjectives such as ingenerated and immobile. His words ask his audience to question their habits, to modify their goals, to engage in new enterprises and to look with a critical eye at their previous attempts to get knowledge. It operates as a travel guide that leads the audience on a journey that will educate them and help them to gradually become philosophically mature, to become true themselves, which can also be described as the encouragement to become Being.

Chiara Robbiano was born in Genoa (Italy), where she got her degree in Philosophy. The topic of her Master thesis was ParmenidesÆ Poem. Her interest in the philosophy and the ways of expression of this most important figure in Greek thought brought her to Leiden (the Netherlands) where she continued her study among classicists with a taste for philosophical texts. At the University of Leiden she wrote and defended her PhD thesis on Parmenides on which this book is based. She lives in the Netherlands where she is lecturer in philosophy at the universities of Leiden and Utrecht.