Abstract
Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570–c. 475bce) was a poet, performer of epic verse, and philosopher who made significant contributions to early Greek thought. His main interests were the standards for proper conduct at symposia, the measures of personal excellence, erroneous depictions of the gods, the attributes of the one greatest god, the basic substances and forces that order nature, the value of inquiry, and the limits of knowledge. He is best remembered for his criticisms of the stories about the gods told by Homer and Hesiod and his rejection of anthropomorphic conceptions of the divine.
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