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<p> An elegiac poet of Megara; flourished in the second half of the 6th century B.C.; lost his possessions during a revolution at Megara, in which the democrats overpowered the aristocrats, to which party he belonged; compelled to live in exile, he found solace in the writing of poetry full of a practical and prudential wisdom, bitterly biased against democracy, and tinged with pessimism. </p> | <p> An elegiac poet of Megara; flourished in the second half of the 6th century B.C.; lost his possessions during a revolution at Megara, in which the democrats overpowered the aristocrats, to which party he belonged; compelled to live in exile, he found solace in the writing of poetry full of a practical and prudential wisdom, bitterly biased against democracy, and tinged with pessimism. </p> | ||
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<ref name="term_80473"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/theognis Theognis from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | <ref name="term_80473"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/theognis Theognis from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 19:04, 15 October 2021
Theognis [1]
An elegiac poet of Megara; flourished in the second half of the 6th century B.C.; lost his possessions during a revolution at Megara, in which the democrats overpowered the aristocrats, to which party he belonged; compelled to live in exile, he found solace in the writing of poetry full of a practical and prudential wisdom, bitterly biased against democracy, and tinged with pessimism.
