Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Presocratic Philosophy
Hesiod and Homer and other poets spoke about the Gods. The Presocratics and the Ancient Philosophers searched from what they as well as the whole, are made off. It is wrong to forget that Hesiod uses the means of poetry and to interpret his poems as if they were mere reports. That humans don't know everything about nature, doesn't mean that something is supranatural. In order to understand the ancient way of thinking, which is totally different from the modern monotheistic one, one has to consult the last of the Ancients the Neoplatonists. They were the first who were confronted with the other way of thinking, the one which defined itsself "the upside down". They explained logically what the Ancients perceived.
