Whether he died in the attempt or survived the fall of the tyrant is a point on which the authorities vary. He was an Eleatic philosopher. He was the despise of Parmenides. In fact they were so close Aristotle considered Zeno the son of Parmenides. Zeno devoted all his energies to explain and develop the philosophical system of Parmenides.
True being is absolutely static and unchangeable and there is no motion.
People found this paradoxical. So Zeno created these arguments below to show that the alleged commonsensical notion of reality lead to a consequence as paradoxical as his master. Zeno s arguments can be classified into two groups. The first group contains paradoxes against multiplicity, and are directed to showing that the unlimited or the continuous, cannot be composed of units however small and however many. We never come to a point or unit.