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Theognis of , Xenophon, Aristotle, Musonius and Clement of Alexandria, who aptly compares it with Psalm 18. Besides the elegies to Cyrnus the Theognidea comprise many maxims, laments on the degeneracy of the age and the woes of poverty, personal admonitions and challenges, invocations of the gods, songs for convivial gatherings and much else that may well have come from Theognis himself. The second section ("Musa Paedica") deals with the love of boys, and, with the exceptions already noted, scholars are at one in rejecting its claim to authenticity. Although some critics assign many elegies to a very late date, a careful examination of the language, vocabulary, versification and general trend of thought has convinced the author of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica article that practically the whole collection was composed before the Hellenistic age. Editions August Immanuel Bekker (1815, 2nd ed. 1827); Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1826); both these are epoch-making books which no serious student can ignore; Theodor Bergk (1843, 4th ed. 1882; re-edited by E Hiller, 1890, and O Crusius, 1897); J Sitzler (1880); E Harrison (1902); T Hudson-Williams (1910). This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/"
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