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    medical-philosophical school. In 88 BC Elea was ascribed to the Romilia tribe, becoming a Roman municipium with the name of Velia, but with the right to maintain...
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  • of an Italian-Greek colony, now known as Velia Eleatics, a school of pre-Socratic philosophers at Elea Elea in Aeolis, an ancient Greek city in Turkey...
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    relevant in debates about the philosophy of time. Parmenides was born in Elea (called Velia in Roman times), a city located in Magna Graecia. Diogenes Laertius...
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  • Velia may refer to: Velia, the ancient Greek town named Elea in Italy, now part of the municipality of Ascea, Province of Salerno Velian Hill (or Velia)...
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    Posidonia, known under the Roman government as Paestum; below that came Elea (Velia under the Romans), Pyxus, called by the Romans Buxentum, and Laüs, near...
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    characters born in Magna Graecia are the philosophers Parmenides of Elea, Zeno of Elea, Gorgias of Lentini and Empedocles of Agrigento; the Pythagoreans...
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    Ascea (redirect from Ascea-Velia)
    of southwestern Italy. In the communal territory are the Greek ruins of Velia. It is part of the Cilento traditional area; the maritime touristic part...
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    Emporion (modern-day Empúries, in Catalonia, Spain) in 575 BC and Elea (modern-day Velia, in Campania, Italy) in 540 BC. Phocaea was the northernmost of...
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    also visible in the remains of the colonies of Velia (ancient Elea) and Paestum (ancient Poseidonia). Velia was also the seat of "Eleatics", a school of...
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    Motacilla velia and cited Edwards' work. Linnaeus provided no explanation for the specific epithet; it is perhaps a misprint for the Ancient Greek elea, a small...
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