Theognis of Megara

Theognis in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

(Θέογνις). Of Megara, an ancient elegiac and gnomic poet, said to have flourished B.C. 548 or 544. He may have been born about 570, and would therefore have been eighty at the commencement of the Persian Wars, 490, at which time we know from his own writings that he was alive. Theognis belonged to the oligarchical party in his native city, and in i...

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Theognis of Megara in Wikipedia

Theognis of Megara (Ancient Greek: Θέογνις ὁ Μεγαρεύς, Théognis o Megareus; fl. 6th century BC) was an ancient Greek poet. More than half of the extant elegiac poetry of Greece before the Alexandrian period is included in the 1,400 verses ascribed to Theognis.[1] Collection This collection contains several poems acknowledged to have been composed ...

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