THEOGNIS

thēŏgˈnĭs, fl. 6th cent. b.c., Greek didactic poet of Megara. An aristocrat with fierce partisan feelings, he wrote for his young friend Cyrnus a series of elegies, often passionate in hate and in love, counseling moderation, faithfulness, and duty. Among the 1,400 surviving lines attributed to him are some known to be by other writers.

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Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents
Book by Thomas K. Hubbard; University of California Press, 2003
Subjects: Greece--Social Life And Customs--Sources, Homosexuality--Greece--History--Sources, Homosexuality--Rome--History--Sources, Rome--Social Life And Customs--Sources
...Ibycus 38 1.37 1.83 Theognis 38 1.84 Simonides...sexual preferences 1.1 . Somewhat later, Theognis seems conscious of boy-love as a distinctive...figs. 8 , 15 . Early poets such as Theognis 1.41, 1.65 and Pindar 1.86 make it...
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Social Justice in the Ancient World
Book by K. D. Irani, Morris Silver; Greenwood Press, 1995
Subjects: Civilization, Ancient--Congresses, Social Justice--History--Congresses
...transmitted to us under the name of Theognis. The Theognidea, as the corpus is also...seen from the "Table of Attestations," Theognis contains the most elaborate extant repertoire...exposition of views on economic status. Theognis was the poetic persona assumed by...
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Wealth in Western Thought: The Case for and against Riches
Book by Paul G. Schervish; Praeger Publishers, 1994
Subjects: Wealth--Moral And Ethical Aspects--Congresses
...the Illiad 750 B.C. , the poems of Theognis of Megara 550 B.C. , and Platos Republic...eighth century B.C. , the poems of Theognis of Megara mostly mid-sixth century B...pass crooked judgments" 260-62 . THEOGNIS AND THE ARCHAIC AGE The eighth century...
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The Beginnings of European Theorizing--Reflexivity in the Archaic Age
Book by Barry Sandywell; Routledge, 1996
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The Aristocratic Ideal and Selected Papers
Book by Walter Donlon; Bolchazy-Carducci, 1999
Subjects: Aristocracy (Social Class)--Greece--Attitudes--History, Class Consciousness--Greece--Attitudes, Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C
...around a core of verses by an historical Theognis of Megara, but as an organic work-in...multivalent persona of the aptly named Theognis; whose poetic program includes both the...Chapter Three, The Crisis of Identity: Theognis and Pindar 77 Chapter Four, The...
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journal articles on: Theognis  - 10 results

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Philosophy and Jihad: Al-Farabi on Compulsion to Happiness
Journal article by Michael J. Sweeney; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 60, 2007
Subjects: Farabi, Abu Nasr al---Works, Islamic philosophy--Analysis, Jihad--Analysis, Jihad--Religious aspects, Philosophy, Islamic--Analysis
...that belongs to and is the agent: Now if arguments were in themselves enough to make men good, they would justly, as Theognis says, have won very great rewards, and such rewards should have been provided; but as things are, while they seem to...
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Peacock in Love: Reminiscences of Cecilia Jenkins, an Unknown Victorian Novelist
Journal article by Nicholas A. Joukovsky; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 85, 2006
Subjects: Jenkins, Cecilia--Criticism and interpretation, Jenkins, Cecilia--Works, Women authors--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors--Works, Women writers--Criticism and interpretation, Women writers--Works
...it to Lysippus, a Greek poet of Old Comedy (1:293). The passage in Sophocles is generally thought to have been imitated from Theognis, 425-28. Mrs. Jenkins could have found the line in Peacocks unpublished translation, "Choral Ode on the Evils of Life," line...
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The Double Meaning of Hestia: Gender, Spirituality, and Signification in Antiquity
Journal article by Anna Antonopoulos; Women and Language, Vol. 16, 1993
Subjects: Gods, Greek--Psychological aspects, Mythology--Analysis, Symbolism--Analysis
...Classical Library. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press and William Heinemann, 1946. Hesiod. Theogony. In Hesiod and Theognis. Translated by Dorothea Wender. New York: Penguin, 1982. Kirksey, Barbara. "Hestia: A Background of Psychological Focusing...
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Sex between Men and Boys in Classical Greece: Was It Education for Citizenship or Child Abuse?
Journal article by Enid Bloch; The Journal of Men's Studies, Vol. 9, 2001
Subjects: Civilization, Greek--Social aspects, Homosexuality--Social aspects, Pedophilia--Social aspects
...episode appears in Hesiod, Theogony, lines 116 through 206. The quote is from p. 28 of the Penguin Books edition, Hesiod and Theognis (London, 1973). (49.) See Sophocles Oedipus Rex for the best-known version of the myth. Other ancient sources give slightly...
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Practicing Ethics: Where's the Action?
Journal article by Leon R. Kass; The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 20, 1990
Subjects: Bioethics--Evaluation, Ethics--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Medical ethics--Analysis, The Hastings Center--Influence
...arguments or discourses on ethics were sufficient to make men decent, "large fees and many" justly "would they win" (according to Theognis), and to provide such speeches would be all that is needed. But it appears that speeches have influence to encourage and stimulate...
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Revenge of the Castle People: Reagan and Thatcher Revived the Principles of the Marketplace. Can We Restore Its Culture?
Magazine article by Michael Knox Beran; National Review, Vol. 61, September 7, 2009
Subjects: Civilization, Western--Economic aspects, Civilization, Western--Social aspects, Economic systems--Social aspects, Marketplaces--Influence, Social structure--Economic aspects, Western culture--Economic aspects, Western culture--Social aspects
...Divine Comedy; this medieval marketplace, in turn, gave way to a Renaissance one, the agora-piazza of Michelangelo and Leonardo. Theognis said of the common people, "They have no tradition." He was wrong. They have the agora. Unlike castle culture, agora culture...
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'An Army of Lovers:' the Sacred Band of Thebes
Magazine article by Louis Crompton; History Today, Vol. 44, November 1994
Subjects: Gay military personnel--History, Greece--History, Homosexuality--History
...recognised its power to forge bonds between youths and older mentors within the ruling class. (This was the case in Sparta and in Theognis Megara). Democracies like Athens, on the other hand, saw in male love a bulwark against oppression, and traced the re-establishment...


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encyclopedia articles on: Theognis  - 2 results

 
 
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Theognis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
THEOGNIS theog nis, fl. 6th cent. b.c., Greek didactic poet of Megara. An aristocrat with fierce partisan feelings, he wrote for his...
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Greek Literature, Ancient
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...are dated 800 300 b.c. Only fragments survive of the works of many early Greek poets, including the elegiasts Tyrtaeus , Theognis , Solon , Semonides of Amorgos , Archilochus , and Hipponax . The most personal Greek poems are the lyrics of Alcaeus...


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