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Xenophanes

Xenophanes

570 BCE478 BCE

Itinerant Ionian poet-philosopher who criticized anthropomorphic conceptions of the gods and spoke of 'one greatest god' — a critique of popular polytheism (often read as henotheism rather than full monotheism); by ancient tradition linked to the Eleatics as a forerunner of Parmenides.

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