But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

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. 570 – c. 475 BC) was a Greek philosopher theologian poet and social and religious critic.