Elea

[ ee-lee-uh ]

noun

1. an ancient Greek city in SW Italy, on the coast of Lucania.

Elea

/ ˈiːlɪə /

noun

1. (in ancient Italy) a Greek colony on the Tyrrhenian coast of Lucana

Example Sentences

Nothing demonstrates this better than the celebrated arguments which we owe to Zeno of Elea.

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He should rather have said—'scoles of Elea and of the Academie.'

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From thence they sailed over to Subota, an island between Elea and Athos.

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The school of Elea rejected the gross anthropomorphism of the Homeric theology.

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Logic has the serpent in her hand below a veil, and at her feet Zeno of Elea, who is reading.

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