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    Theognis of Megara (Greek: Θέογνις ὁ Μεγαρεύς, Théognis ho Megareús) was a Greek lyric poet active in approximately the sixth century BC. The work attributed...
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  • Theognis (Greek: Θέογνις) was a member of the Thirty Tyrants of Athens (Xenophon, Hellenica 2.3.2; Lysias 12.6). Lysias was able to escape from the house...
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  • Theognis is the name of: Theognis of Megara, 6th century BC Greek elegiac poet Theognis (tyrant), one of the Thirty Tyrants of Athens in 404–403 BC (possibly...
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  • Westport, CT: Praeger. pp. 13–42. ISBN 0-275-94677-0. Theognis 1973 "Elegies." Hesiod and Theognis. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Burris, Val (2000). "The Myth...
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  • Theognis of Nicaea (Greek: Θέογνις) was a 4th-century Bishop of Nicaea, excommunicated after the First Council of Nicaea for not denouncing Arius and his...
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    legendary founder of Byzantium in the 7th century BC. The 6th century BC poet Theognis also came from Megara. In the early 4th century BC, Euclid of Megara founded...
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  • epic poetry, typically in dactylic hexameter, by poets such as Hesiod and Theognis of Megara. Compositions in Epic Greek may date from as late as the 5th...
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    their weapons and thus frightening Hera, they concealed Leto's childbirth. Theognis wrote that the island was filled with ambrosial fragrance when Apollo was...
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    formation into an adult Megarian aristocrat in Theognis' own image". The relationship between Theognis and Kyrnos eludes categorization. Although it was...
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    Robert J. (1999). Classical Mythology. Oxford University Press, pg 491 Theognis, frags 699-718 Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.15 Euripides, Alcestis 1140...
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  • but refused to join in condemnation of Arius, Eusebius of Nicomedia and Theognis of Nicaea. The emperor also ordered all copies of the Thalia, the book...
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    (Valediktionsarbeit, graduation thesis for Pforta students) was titled "On Theognis of Megara" ("De Theognide Megarensi"); see Jensen & Heit 2014, p. 4 Schaberg...
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  • gnomic poets were Theognis, Solon, Phocylides, Simonides of Amorgos, Demodocus, Xenophanes and Euenus. With the exception of Theognis, whose gnomes were...
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    Philocles Pindar Plutarch Polybius Sappho Simonides Sophocles Stesichorus Theognis Thucydides Timocreon Tyrtaeus Xenophon Others Athenian statesmen Lawgivers...
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    In a major departure from Hesiod, the 6th-century BC Greek elegiac poet Theognis of Megara states that Hope is the only good god remaining among mankind;...
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    Co; First edition (1970). ISBN 069022608X. Tyrtaeus in Tyrtaeus, Solon, Theognis, Mimnermus. Greek Elegiac Poetry: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries...
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    Hypselonotus Hahn, 1826 Microphyllia Stål, 1870 Nannophyllia Bergroth, 1913 Stalifera Osuna, 1984 Theognis Stål, 1862 Theonoe Philippi, 1865 Veneza Osuna, 1984...
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    Library of History 4.25.4 Archived 10 February 2023 at the Wayback Machine Theognis, fragments 699-718 Archived 26 September 2021 at the Wayback Machine Hyginus...
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    Symposium, as well as a number of Greek poems, such as the elegies of Theognis of Megara. Symposia are depicted in Greek and Etruscan art, that shows...
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  • mentioned by other ancient Greek writers such as Alcaeus (Fragment 364), Theognis (Fragment 1; 267, 351, 649), Aristophanes (Plutus, 414ff), Herodotus, Plutarch...
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  • (Greek: Φωκυλίδης ὁ Μιλήσιος), Greek gnomic poet of Miletus, contemporary of Theognis of Megara, was born about 560 BC. A few fragments of his "maxims" have...
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    Philocles Pindar Plutarch Polybius Sappho Simonides Sophocles Stesichorus Theognis Thucydides Timocreon Tyrtaeus Xenophon Others Athenian statesmen Lawgivers...
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    538: Justin c. 544: Vitalius c. 550: John 568–569/70: Bonus 581–582: Theognis c. 347: Flavius Eusebius, magister utriusquae militiae 349–359: Ursicinus...
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    The Little Iliad, Frag 7; Homeric Hymns – Hymn V, To Aphrodite, 203–217; Theognis – Fragments 1.1345; Pindar – Olympian Odes 1; 11; Euripides – Iphigenia...
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    presented by him in Theogony. The Bacchylidean victory ode is fr. 5 Loeb. Theognis of Megara (169) is the source of a similar sentiment ("Even the fault-finder...
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  • groups, especially in Crete and Sparta, but also in Megara in the time of Theognis of Megara (sixth century BCE) and Corinth in the time of Periander (seventh...
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    One of the very earliest is in a poem by the 6th century BCE Greek poet Theognis of Megara, who refers to a friend who has betrayed him as the 'chill and...
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    mardania (Fabricius, 1793) Synonyms Papilio mardania Fabricius, 1793 Bebearia (Apectinaria) mardania Euryphene theogonis Hewitson, 1864 Bebearia theognis...
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  • Secundus) were deposed and exiled to Illyricum, while three other supporters—Theognis of Nicaea, Eusebius of Nicomedia and Maris of Chalcedon—affixed their signatures...
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    Philocles Pindar Plutarch Polybius Sappho Simonides Sophocles Stesichorus Theognis Thucydides Timocreon Tyrtaeus Xenophon Others Athenian statesmen Lawgivers...
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