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Xenophanes
Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher (c.570–c.478 BC)
Not to be confused with Xenocrates or Xenophon.
Xenophanes of Colophon (zə-NOF-ə-neez;[1][2]Ancient Greek: Ξενοφάνης ὁ Κολοφώνιος[ksenopʰánɛːshokolopʰɔ̌ːnios]; c. 570 – c.
Xenophanes religion meaning
478 BC) was a Greekphilosopher, theologian, poet, and critic of Homer from Ionia who travelled throughout the Greek-speaking world in early Classical Antiquity.
As a poet, Xenophanes was known for his critical style, writing poems that are considered among the first satires.
He composed elegiac couplets that criticised his society's traditional values of wealth, excesses, and athletic victories. He criticised Homer and the other poets in his works for representing the gods as foolish or morally weak.
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His poems have not survived intact; only fragments of some of his work survive in quotations by later philosophers and literary critics.
Xenophanes is seen as one of the most important pre-Socratic philosophers. A