Single Idea 408

[catalogued under 28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism]

Full Idea

Ethiopians have gods with snub noses and black hair, Thracians have gods with grey eyes and red hair.

Gist of Idea

Ethiopian gods have black hair, and Thracian gods have red hair

Source

Xenophanes (fragments/reports [c.530 BCE], B16), quoted by Clement - Miscellanies 7.22.1

Book Reference

'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.22