Xenophanes

(Originally written August 30, 2006 in History I)

The Classical Mind by W.T. Jones

Xenophanes:

Xenophanes was an Ionian and followed Heraclitus in his religious views. Xenophanes believed in one god who is not in form or thought like man. Xenophanes' one god saw everything, but he still had pantheistic tones like Heraclitus.

The religion of Xenophanes and Heraclitus cut away at the ancient myth religion of Greece and caused an undermining of the foundations of all Greek society. The collapse of the religion led to the immorality in later Greek life.