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Athenian poet of New Comedy
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Biography
Introduction
Theognetus (Greek: Θεόγνητος) was a Greek comic poet of the 3rd century BCE.
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 survive, of which one is found in Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae (3.63).