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Theognetus (Greek: Θεόγνητος) was an Ancient Greek comic poet of the 3rd century BC.

Works

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The titles of three of his works survive.

  • Κένταυρος (The Centaur)
  • Φάσμα ἢ Φιλάργυρος (The Ghost or The Miser)
  • Φιλοδέσποτος (The one who loves his master)

Very few fragments of his works survive; this one comes from Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae (3.63).

‘Man, you’re killing me! You are packed full of little speeches

From the Stoa Poikile and you’re sick.

“Wealth is not any man’s possession, it is frost.

Wisdom is truly yours, it is ice, No one ever

Lost wisdom once he found it.” Fuck me!

What kind of a philosopher has god housed me with?

You learned your letters in reverse, wretch.

Your books have turned your life upside down.

You have philosophized nonsense to heaven and earth.

They don’t give a shit about your words.’[1]

References

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  1. ^ "Philosophizing Nonsense". 28 June 2017.
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Athenaeus

sexuality in classical and Hellenistic Greece, and a rare fragment of Theognetus' work survives in 3.63. The Deipnosophistae professes to be an account

Stoa Poikile

founded was named Stoicism as a result. The late third-century BC comedian Theognetus refers to "trifling arguments from the Poikile Stoa" in a joke about philosophers

Greek wrestling

(Παραβάλλον). Amertes (Ἀμέρτης) of Elis. Euanoridas (Εὐανορίδᾳς) of Elis. Theognetus (Θεογνήτος) of Aegina. Xenocles (Ξενοκλῆς) of Maenalus. Cheimon (Χείμων)

List of ancient Greek playwrights

Sopater, 282 BC Damoxenus c. 370 BC – 270 BC Hegesippus, or Crobylus Theognetus Bathon Diodorus Machon of Corinth/Alexandria 3rd century BC Poseidippus

Ancient Greek comedy

BC Phoenicides of Megara, around 280 to 260 BC Hegesippus Plato Junior Theognetus Bathon Diodorus Machon of Corinth/Alexandria 3rd century BC Posidippus

Miser (disambiguation)

Φάσμα ἢ Φιλάργυρος (The Miser), one of three surviving titles of works by Theognetus, an Ancient Greek comic poet The Miser, a 1979 TV programme - see List

Ptolichus

works of his which are mentioned are the statues of two Olympic victors, Theognetus of Aegina, and Epicradius of Mantineia. Ptolichus of Corcyra was an ancient