Theognetus (Greek: Θεόγνητος) was an

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ...

comic poet of the 3rd century BC.

Works

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 Athenaeus of Naucratis (; grc, Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; la, Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of th ...

' ''Deipnosophistae'' (3.63).

‘Man, you’re killing me! You are packed full of little speeches From the
Stoa Poikile The Stoa Poikile (, ) or Painted Porch, originally called the Porch of Peisianax (, ), was a stoa (a covered walkway or portico) erected during the 5th century BC and was located on the north side of the Ancient Agora of Athens. 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.’

References

External links

Fragment of Theognotus' ''The Ghost'' or ''The Miser''

Suda Online: 'Theognetus'

'Theognetus' at Brill's New Pauly Encyclopedia
Ancient Greek dramatists and playwrights Ancient Greek poets 3rd-century BC Greek people 3rd-century BC writers New Comic poets Writers of lost works {{Poet-stub