In a word, there is no more solid ground for treating Perses and his quarrel with Hesiod as fictitious than there would be for treating Cyrnus, the friend of
Theognis, as mythical.
SOCRATES: And are you aware that not you only and other politicians have doubts whether virtue can be taught or not, but that
Theognis the poet says the very same thing?
Thus, the young Christian of Caesarea would be able to find many examples of virtue in Homer, Hesios,
Theognis, Solon and Euripides and the philosophers, above all Plato, whom he quotes on several occasions.
(63) The classical authors whose works he translates in the third book (Talbot, 1879) are Tyrtaeus,
Theognis, pseudo-Phocylides, Solon, Simonides, and Horace (the only Latin author).
(28.) A fragment from
Theognis (also attributed to Mimnermus) provides an interesting comparandum.
Sokrates Antwort versetzte das Problem auf eine hohere Ebene, indem er die Kalokagathie, die sittliche Vollkommenheit nannte, die man freilich nicht von Parfumverkaufern beziehen konne, sondern gemass dem Ausspruch des
Theognis (Thgn.I.35-36) durch den Verkehr mit Edlen gewonne, was Lykon seinen Sohn zu beherzigen bat.
In support of this, the author quotes
Theognis (665-6 and 797-8).
Moreover, although many--both poets (such as Pythagoras,
Theognis,
Some famous Greek relationships were Achilles and Patroclus, Orestes and Pylades, Socrates and Alcibiades, and
Theognis and Anacreon.
Although his argument that the Greeks were unique in their development of a free culture may be speculative and not conclusive, his attention to the spectrum of dimensions of Greek culture provokes his reader to investigate further the influence of more obscure authors, such as Alcaeus or
Theognis, or the inspiration the Greeks drew from its contact with the other great empires.