Théognis de Mégare (towards the second half of the {{Life}} century) is a poet gnomic of the ancient Greece. More half of the elegiac poems preserved before the hellenistic Period are contained in the 1400 worms allotted to Théognis.

He was regarded a long time as a moralist.

Biographical elements

Member of the aristocracy Dorien and enemy of the popular party. He probably died in Thèbes. Principal information which we have of him comes from the work of Suidas and the proper fragments.

Work

Didactic poet, Théognis has as an interlocutor the young person Cyrnos, wire of Polypas, to which it reveals his political and moral precepts.

Its experiment of the Stasis of Mégare, the fact of turning to the topics of the decline, from the collapse of the aristocratic values, the myth hesiodic of the golden age and the Dikê , justice human in its eyes absent from the city.

One preserves also some worms erotic S which is allotted to him.