Teognis (tirano)

Teognis (in ancient Greek, Θεόγνιδος) was one of the Thirty Tyrants of Athens (Xenophon, Hellenic 2.3.2, Lysias, Against Eratosthenes 12.6).

We know that Teognis deprived his property and captured Lysias in the house of Damnipo, friend of the second, along with other aristocrats. While Damnipo tried to bribe Teogis to free Lysias, this one managed to circumvent the vigilance of the tyrants and to escape of the house, since he knew that it had two doors, thing rare in the time. It is possible (although we do not know for sure) that Teognis was also a minor tragic poet referred to by the playwright Aristophanes in some of his works, where he mocks the coldness of his poetry (Acarnians 11 and 38, Las Tesmoforias 170). This hypothesis is given as true in ancient sources as the Suda

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