Theognis of Megara
Also known as Theognis
Greek lyric poet active in approximately the sixth century BC
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Theognis of Megara was a Greek lyric poet who lived around the sixth century BC and is remembered for his surviving poetry, which offers valuable insights into the social values and daily life of ancient Greece. His work matters to historians and classicists because it provides one of our few direct literary windows into how Greeks of that era thought about friendship, honor, wealth, and social order.
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- Type
- Group
- Origin
- Madrid
- Active from
- 2015-02
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Discography
- Muérase Quien Pueda2015
- Siete2016
- Aquí Todos Estamos Locos2018
- Truco o Trato2020
Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Theognis of Megara, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Drawing of a kylix from Tanagra, Boeotia, c. 500 BC. A symposiast sings ὦ παίδων κάλλιστε, the beginning of a verse by Theognis Theognis of Megara (Ancient Greek: Θέογνις ὁ Μεγαρεύς, Théognis ho Megareús) was a Greek lyric poet active in approximately the sixth century BC. The work attributed to him consists of gnomic poetry quite typical of the time, featuring ethical maxims and practical advice about life. He was the first Greek poet known to express concern over the eventual fate and survival of his own work and, along with Homer, Hesiod and the authors of the Homeric Hymns, he is among the earliest poets whose work has been preserved in a continuous manuscript tradition (the work of other archaic poets is preserved as scattered fragments).
More than half of the extant elegiac poetry of Greece before the Alexandrian period is included in the approximately 1,400 lines of verse attributed to him, though several poems traditionally attributed to him were composed by others, e.g. Solon and Euenus. Some of these verses inspired ancient commentators to value him as a moralist yet the entire corpus is valued today for its "warts and all" portrayal of aristocratic life in archaic Greece.
