Observed arrival · 2026-08-25
Parmenides Academy: A Slow-Reading Seminar for Plato’s Hardest Dialogue
An eight-session online seminar reads Plato’s “Parmenides” slowly and aloud, checking the Greek original while tracing the dialogue’s influence across 2,500 years of thought.
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The seminar uses eight 75-minute Zoom meetings to move from passages and Greek keywords into translation, hypothesis, definition, and dialectical discussion. Its public apparatus includes exercises, handouts, and a filiations map that places 45 authors around the dialogue’s historical transmission. The page also identifies a four-to-eight-person format and names the leader’s academic and publishing background, while framing formal preparation as unnecessary.
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