Xenophanes of colophon biography of michael
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Michael Eisenstadt
Michael Eisenstadt
Michael Eisenstadt, renowned scholar of ancient Greek philosophy, passed away on Friday, November 26th from complications of Leukemia at age
Michael was born in Brooklyn, NY in , completed his Bachelor's degree in English Literature at Brooklyn College in and subsequently served in the US Army Reserve. He received a Master's in Classical Philology from Harvard University in and completed a Doctorate in Ancient Greek at the University of Texas in Uniquely, Michael was fluent in Ancient Greek, French and Latin and was able to work directly from original texts. This rare skill gave his scholarship profound depth. Michael's oft-cited dissertation is entitled "The Philosophy of Xenophanes of Colophon." He authored many additional works on the topics of pre-Socratic philosophy and the life and teachings of Plato.
Michael married his wife, artist Madelon Umlauf, in He taught Classics at Brooklyn College as Lecturer and at the University of Oklahom
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Xenophanes
Fragments and Commentary
The First Philosophers of Greece
(London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, )
Arthur Fairbanks
editor and translator
Hanover Historical Texts Project
Scanned and proofread bygd Aaron Gulyas, May
Proofread and pages added by Jonathan Perry, March
Proofread and validated bygd Michael Stewart, June
Fragments of Xenophanes
Translation
Sayings of Xenophanes
Passages relating to Xenophanes in Plato and Aristotle
Passages relating to Xenophanes in the Doxographists
List of Abbreviations
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XENOPHANES: THE ELEATIC SCHOOL.
XENOPHANES of Kolophon, son of Dexias (Apollodoros says of Orthomenes), was the founder of the Eleatic School. After a careful review of the bevis, Zeller (Yorsokr. Phil. pp. ) concludes that be was born about B.C.; it is agreed by all writers that he lived to a great age. The stories of his travels and adventures are very numerous. He speaks of the war between the Ionic colonies and the Persian
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Xenophanes
Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher (c–c BC)
Not to be confused with Xenocrates or Xenophon.
Xenophanes of Colophon (zə-NOF-ə-neez;[1][2]Ancient Greek: Ξενοφάνης ὁ Κολοφώνιος[ksenopʰánɛːshokolopʰɔ̌ːnios]; c.&#; – c. BC) was a Greekphilosopher, theologian, poet, and critic of Homer from Ionia who travelled throughout the Greek-speaking world in early classical antiquity.
As a poet, Xenophanes was known for his critical style, writing poems that are considered among the first satires. He composed elegiac couplets that criticised his society's traditional values of wealth, excesses, and athletic victories. He criticised Homer and the other poets in his works for representing the gods as foolish or morally weak. His poems have not survived intact; only fragments of some of his work survive in quotations by later philosophers and literary critics.
Xenophanes is seen as one of the most important pre-Socratic philosophers. A highly original th