In the Diels-Kranz edition of pre-Socratic fragments, the line quoted in the title represents the fourteenth out of nineteen fragments which have been preserved from Parmenides' poem. It is usually read 'philosophically', that is, as an observation on the movement and light of the moon. According to Jean Beaufret, however, here 'shines one of the most beautiful lines in the Greek language - pre-Socratic moonlight, the gleaming remnant of a truncated whole'. Beaufret's claim forms the basis for our thesis that Parmenides' line may also be read 'poetically' as a gnome on man, following Parmenides' association of a 'foreign light' (allótrion phôs) with Homer's 'foreign man' (allótrios phós).

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URN:NBN:SI:DOC-OGZYDA6R

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55766626

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Snoj, Vid (2014). "V noči sijoča, krog zemlje blodeča tuja luč". Keria (Ljubljana), volume 16, issue 1, str. 21-49, 166. URN:NBN:SI:DOC-OGZYDA6R from http://www.dlib.si

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Snoj, Vid. ""V noči sijoča, krog zemlje blodeča tuja luč"." Keria (Ljubljana) volume 16. issue 1 (2014) str. 21-49, 166.
<http://www.dlib.si/?URN=URN:NBN:SI:DOC-OGZYDA6R>

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