Xenophanes

Definition: Xenophanes of Colophon (c.570-475 B.C.) was the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy. Xenophanes recited poetry at the court of Hiero when he was in Sicily and then in Magna Graecia, Xenophanes took up Pythagorean philosophy, leading the Pythagorean school for many years. Xenophanes rejected the anthropomorphic deities of Homer and Hesiod and considered there to be one incorporeal god.