How long does it take to read Parmenides?
Parmenides by Plato takes about 2 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Platonic dialogue
Previous: Phaedo Next: Hippias Major
About 2 hours 58 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1728. 162 pages, about 44,550 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 111 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Revised edition. Volume 4. Translated by R. E. Allen
Subjects: Ontology, Dialectic, Reasoning, Pleasure, Manuscripts, The Great Conversation
