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Xenophanes of Colophon (/ z ə ˈ n ɒ f ə n iː z / zə-NOF-ə-neez; Ancient Greek: Ξενοφάνης ὁ Κολοφώνιος [ksenopʰánɛːs ho kolopʰɔ̌ːnios]; c. 570 – c. 478 BC) was a Greek philosopher, theologian, poet, and critic of Homer from Ionia who travelled throughout the Greek-speaking world in early Classical Antiquity.
Oct 21, 2002 · Xenophanes of Colophon was a philosophically-minded poet who lived in various parts of the ancient Greek world during the late 6 th and early 5 th centuries BCE. He is best remembered for a novel critique of anthropomorphism in religion, a partial advance toward monotheism, and some pioneering reflections on the conditions of knowledge.
Xenophanes of Colophon was a sixth-century B.C.E. traveler and sage who wrote poetry on various topics, including religion, nature and knowledge. He is known for his critique of anthropomorphic and polytheistic views of the divine, his monistic or pantheistic theology, and his scientific observations of the natural world.
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Xenophanes (born c. 560 bc, Colophon, Ionia—died c. 478) was a Greek poet and rhapsode, religious thinker, and reputed precursor of the Eleatic school of philosophy, which stressed unity rather than diversity and viewed the separate existences of material things as apparent rather than real.
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Sep 2, 2009 · Xenophanes of Colophon (l. c. 570 to c. 478 BCE) was a Greek philosopher born 50 miles north of Miletus, a city famed for the birth of philosophy and home to the first Western philosopher, Thales of Miletus (l. c. 585 BCE). He is considered one of the most important of the so-called Pre-Socratic philosophers.
- Joshua J. Mark
- Xenophanes of Colophon was a Pre-Socratic philosopher who dismissed traditional polytheism in claiming there was only one God.
- Xenophanes of Colophon is famous for synthesizing the theories of earlier Greek philosophers and claiming there was only one God who was unlike hum...
- Although it has been suggested that Xenophanes developed his monotheism from the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, there is no evidence for this. Xenopha...
- Xenophanes of Colophon is important in the development of Greek Philosophy because his claim of a single, eternal God, unlike human beings, influen...
Jan 18, 2012 · Known chiefly as the first of the Pre-Socratic philosophers to posit the existence of one God, unlike humans in any regard, Xenophanes also had the poet's gift in his ability to capture the enormity of an experience or concept in simple images and few words.
Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570 B.C.E.- c. 478 B.C.E.) was a pre-Socratic philosopher, poet, and social and religious critic. Xenophanes made a major breakthrough in the conception of God in the polytheistic cultural environment of ancient Greece.
