I am Xenophanes, I was a Greek philosopher, theologian, poet, and critic of Homer from Ionia who traveled throughout the Greek-speaking world in early Classical Antiquity. I was known for mycritical style, writing poems that are considered among the first satires. I also composed elegiac couplets that criticized my society's traditional values of wealth, excesses and athletic victories. I also criticized Homer and the other poets in my works for representing the gods as foolish or morally weak.