Xenophanes (Contributor of Lives of the Eminent Philosophers)

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Xenophanes of Colophon (Ancient Greek: Ó©ÎµÎ½Î¿Ï†Î¬Î½Î·Ï‚ á½� ÎšÎ¿Î»Î¿Ï†ÏŽÎ½Î¹Î¿Ï‚ IPA: [ksenopÊ°Ã¡nÉ›Ës ho kolopÊ°É”ÌËnios]; c.570 â€� c.475 BC) was a Greek philosopher, theologian, poet, and social and religious critic. Knowledge of his views comes from fragments of his poetry, surviving as quotations by later Greek writers. To judge from these, his elegiac and iambic poetry criticized and satirized a wide range of ideas, including Homer and Hesiod, the belief in the pantheon of anthropomorphic gods and the Greeks' veneration of athleticism. He is the earliest Greek poet who claims explicitly to be writing for future generations, creating "fame that will reach all of Greece, and never die while the Greek kind of songs survives." ...more

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	Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius, James Miller (Editor)(Introduction), Pamela Mensch (Contributor)(Translator) 4.10 avg rating — 707 ratings — published 250 — 266 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Greek Lyric Poetry by M.L. West (Translator), Archilochus, Semonides 3.86 avg rating — 481 ratings — published -450 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments (Phoenix Presocractic Series) 3.69 avg rating — 125 ratings — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	AntologÃa de la poesÃa lÃrica griega by Carlos GarcÃa Gual (Editor), Tyrtaeus (Contributor), Anacreon (Contributor) 4.09 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1980 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lirici greci by Archilochus, Semonides, Hipponax 4.14 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	±Ê°ùÃ©-³§´Ç³¦°ùÃ¡³Ù¾±³¦´Ç²õ by JosÃ© Cavalcante de Souza (Editor), Anna Lia Amaral de Almeida Prado (Translator), Ãsis Lana Borges (Translator) 3.79 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1972 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	±Ê°ùÃ©-³§´Ç³¦°ùÃ¡³Ù¾±³¦´Ç²õ, Volume I by Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1989	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tres Grandes FilÃ³sofos-Poetas de la Grecia ClÃ¡sica by Xenophanes, Parmenides, Empedocles really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Francisci Kern Quaestionum Xenophanearum (1864) (Latin Edition) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black,
While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.
Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw,
And could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their gods
Like horses, and cattle like cattle; and each they would shape
Bodies of gods in the likeness, each kind, of their own.”
― Xenophanes

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“Men always makes gods in their own image.”
― Xenophanes

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“The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it,neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
For even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses”
― Xenophanes

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