Zeno of EleaIn the hot light of a fifth-century afternoon, the road leading into Elea is dusty and rutted. A small crowd has gathered at the edge of the agora, men in worn tunics, boys who should be running errands, a few visiting merchants resting their packs. At the center stands a tall, lean man with sharp features and an intensity that makes even idle listeners a little uneasy. He is not offering a prophecy, nor telling stories of gods and heroes, nor selling cures. He is asking questions about motion, about plurality, about the most ordinary things in the world. How does a runner catch a slower competitor? How does an arrow move through the air? How can a body reach a destination if it must always first get halfway there, and before that halfway to the halfway, and so on without end? The man is Zeno of Elea, and in the space of a few sentences he will make the familiar seem impossible.Selenius Media

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