ABSTRACT
Like Pythagoras, his contemporary, Xenophanes (c.570-475 BC) is a connective link between the eastern and western parts of the Greek world. He left his home town of Colophon in Ionia in Asia Minor and settled in Southern Italy where he spent his long life as a poet and rhapsode. His poems-not all of which are philosophical-leave the impression of a straightforward, civilized gentleman, aware of his own worth, a person who thought about life in his own way. As a theologian and epistemologist his achievement is significant, because he asked questions about what had until then been left unformulated.
