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: He is the earliest Greek poet who claims explicitly to be writing for future generations , creating '' fame that will reach all of Greece , and never die while the Greek kind of songs survives '' .