Original: To judge from these , his elegiac and iambicEarly Greek philosophy By Jonathan Barnes Page 40 ISBN 0140444610 poetry criticized and satirized a wide range of ideas , including Homer and Hesiod , the belief in the pantheon of anthropomorphic gods and the Greeks ' veneration of .
Simplified: Sextus Empiricus , Against the Mathematicians , I. 289 , and IX .192 f. Xenophanes is quoted , memorably , in Clement of Alexandria , Clement , Miscellanies V. 110 and VII .22 .