The Fragments by Parmenides of Elea (Live Read)

Hey all!
Come join us to discuss Parmenides' Fragments! This will be a live read, so no pre-read necessary! I'll be using the David Gallop translation. Feel free to use whichever you want!

About the text:

The Fragments by Parmenides refer to the surviving portions of his philosophical poem On Nature, which is one of the earliest and most influential works in Western philosophy. In it, Parmenides presents two contrasting views: the Way of Truth, where he argues that reality is eternal, unchanging, and indivisible, and that change and multiplicity are illusions; and the Way of Opinion, which describes the deceptive world of appearances and everyday experience based on unreliable sensory perceptions. Parmenides asserts that "what is" (Being) is the only reality, and his ideas profoundly influenced later thinkers, particularly Plato, who grappled with the problem of change and the nature of ultimate reality in dialogues like Parmenides and The Sophist. Only fragments of the poem remain, passed down through later sources.