Editing Parmenides (section)

==== Visit to Athens ====
[[Plato]], in his dialogue ''[[Parmenides (dialogue)|Parmenides]]'', relates that, accompanied by his disciple [[Zeno of Elea]], Parmenides visited [[Ancient Athens|Athens]] when he was approximately sixty-five years old and that, on that occasion, [[Socrates]], then a young man, conversed with him.<ref>Plato, ''Parmenides'' 127 BC (A 11).</ref> [[Athenaeus]] of [[Naucratis]] had noted that, although the ages make a dialogue between Parmenides and Socrates hardly possible, the fact that Parmenides has sustained arguments similar to those sustained in the [[Platonic dialogue]] is something that seems impossible.<ref>[[Athenaeus]], ''[[Deipnosophistae]]'' XI 505f (A 5)</ref> Most modern classicists consider the visit to Athens and the meeting and conversation with Socrates to be fictitious. Allusions to this visit in other Platonic works are only references to the same fictitious dialogue and not to a historical fact.<ref>See ''Theaetetus'' 183e; ''Sophist'' 217c; see also «Introduction» to the dialogue ''Parménides'' by M.ª Isabel Santa Cruz, p. 11</ref>