Theagenes
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
a Thasian athlete
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Orations
Thasian athlete, thrice Olympic victor and later statesman, whose posthumous statue avenged his scourging by killing his political enemy.
The case of Theagenes, at least, you have heard, how it came about through envy and jealousy from politics.
A plague befalling, as they say, most grievous, and the Thasians being unable in any way to be rid of the disease, and at last consulting the oracle, the god told them to bring back the exiles.
Therefore, whether by chance or some divine power being indignant at him, the statue, moved at last from its base, followed along with the scourge and kills the man.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Tyrant of Megara, father-in-law of Cylon, who furnished the troops for Cylon's attempted seizure of the Athenian Acropolis.
he had married a daughter of Theagenes, a Megarean, who at that time was tyrant of Megara.
So having received a force from Theagenes, and persuaded his friends to it, when the Olympic festival in the Peloponnese came on, he seized the Acropolis with a view to establishing a tyranny;