The ancient Roman city of Velia, located on the Cilento coast in Southern Italy, was founded by Greeks from Phocaea during the 6th-century BCE as Hyele. It was later known as Elea. Elea quickly became a flourishing town and one of the most important cultural centers of the Greek world. It was home to the foundation of the Eleatic school of philosophy by Parmenides in the early 5th-century BCE. Parmenides is regarded as the founder of metaphysics or ontology, while his follower Zeno is famous for his paradoxes of motion….
