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.
There was a Thasian athlete, Theagenes;
The case of Theagenes, at least, you have heard, how it came about through envy and jealousy from politics.
Do not, then, think that the divine power was so indignant at the Thasian being outraged, but that none of those honoured among you is dear to the gods nor a hero.
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;