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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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    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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  • Homeric Greek (category Dialects of languages with ISO 639-3 code)
    it was used as the language of epic poetry, typically in dactylic hexameter, by poets such as Hesiod and Theognis of Megara. Compositions in Epic Greek...
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  • Strattis – Comedy Thales of Miletus – Philosophy, Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics Theocritus – Bucolic poetry Theognis of Megara – Lyric Poetry Theopompus...
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    of Miletus, contemporary of Theognis of Megara, was born about 560 BC. A few fragments of his "maxims" have survived (chiefly in the Florilegium of Stobaeus)...
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  • Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 100–116. Oost, Stewart Irvin (1973). "The Megara of Theagenes and Theognis". Classical Philology. 68 (3): 186–196. doi:10.1086/365976...
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  • aristocrat Theognis of Megara wrote how "in former days, there was a tribe who knew no laws nor manners ... These men are nobles, now, the gentlemen of old are...
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    Symposium (category Culture of ancient Greece)
    and Xenophon's 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...
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  • Syssitia (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities)
    in Megara in the time of Theognis of Megara (sixth century BCE) and Corinth in the time of Periander (seventh century BCE). The banquets spoken of by...
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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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