Xenophanes

The ancient historiographic tradition naturally associates Parmenides with thinkers such as Xenophanes and the Pythagoreans active in Magna Graecia, the Greek-speaking regions of southern Italy, whom he may well have encountered.

Parmenides Palmer, John 2008

In the fifth century BC, Greek philosopher Xenophanes wrote, "If horses had gods, they would look like horses."

Jeffrey Small: Moving Beyond A Human Image Of God Jeffrey Small 2011

In the fifth century BC, Greek philosopher Xenophanes wrote, "If horses had gods, they would look like horses."

Jeffrey Small: Moving Beyond A Human Image Of God Jeffrey Small 2011

Sicily or lived there include Parmenides, Empedocles, Pythagoras, and Xenophanes.

A Review of Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily, by David Randall-MacIver 2009

Else it would have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras, as well as Xenophanes and Hecataeus.

Doctor, My Eyes 2009

Although he was influenced in a number of ways by the thought and language of his predecessors, including the epic poets Homer and Hesiod, the poet and philosopher Xenophanes, the historian and antiquarian Hecataeus, the religious guru Pythagoras, the sage Bias of Priene, the poet Archilochus, and the Milesian philosophers, he criticized most of them either explicitly or implicitly, and struck out on his own path.

Doctor, My Eyes 2009

He argues that the idea of the cosmos breathing is archaic and that it may have been attacked long before Philolaus by Xenophanes, who pointedly describes his god as not breathing; Kahn also argues that the equivalence between air and void suggests a date before Anaxagoras (2001, 36-7).

Philolaus Huffman, Carl 2008

Xenophanes 'remark is reported in only one testimonium (DK 21 A1) and is not found in any of the extant fragments of his book; if it is his, it need not be directed at anything other than general Greek anthropomorphism.

Philolaus Huffman, Carl 2008

Having accounted for the formation of clouds in mechanistic terms through processes of vaporization and compression Xenophanes proceeds to make use of clouds to explain a large number of meteorlogical and astronomical phenomena.

Xenophanes Lesher, James 2008

Other famous Greeks mentioned in the book who visited Sicily or lived there include Parmenides, Empedocles, Pythagoras, and Xenophanes.

Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily by David Randall-MacIver (1931) 2008