Cronaca di Eleatica 2015

The core of Eleatica 2015 – held at Ascea-Velia between the 10th and the 13th of September, with the organization of the Fondazione Alario and the steering committee made by Livio Rossetti, Stefania Giombini and Massimo Pulpito – consisted the Eleatic Lectures, delivered by an important and renowned scholar on Eleatism. In 2015 these lectures were given by Alberto Bernabé, professor of Greek Philology at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, and author of many important contributions on Orphism and linguistics, but also on Parmenides (see Bernabé 1979, pp. 371–376, 1988, pp. 320–325, and 2013). His three Eleatic Lectures were called Parmenide: tra linguistica, letteratura e filosofia (published in a preprint version: Bernabé 2015). He proposed an interpretation of the poem which is new in some important respects.Not unlike its previous editions, Eleatica 2015 hosted the public reviews of some recent books on the Presocratics and included some new features. On the one hand, the event hosted the inauguration of the first Paradox Museumin Italy – and probably Europe, if not the world. On the other hand, the program included the grant of the Honorary Citizenship of Elea to Giovanni Cerri, who gave the 2013 Eleatic Lectures, and an extraordinary Honorary Citizenship to Emanuele Severino, the author of an unforgettable article, Ritornare a Parmenide, printed in 1964, and a public conversation between him, Luigi Vero Tarca, and other participants.The present chronicle offers a synthetic report of Bernabé’s lessons on Parmenides, a short mention to the reviews and some reflections on the two main novelties of the program. Although the Eleatic Lectures deserve a much closer attention, I prefer here to give a complete picture of the event, rather than to concentrate on a single part. Those who desire to have a more detailed account of Bernabé’s lessons might read an expanded version of these pages, to appear in ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑ. Yearbook of the Research Center for Greek Philosophy of the Academy of Athens in 2016.