What is "theagenes"

Theagenes (Greek: Θεαγένης) was the name of several persons:

• Theagenes of Megara, tyrant of Megara of 6th century BC
• Theagenes of Rhegium, a literary critic of 6th century BC
• Theagenes of Thasos, a famous sportsman of 5th century BC
• Theagenes of Patras, a Cynic philosopher of the 2nd century
• Theagenes (historian) of unknown date
• Theagenes (patrician), an Athenian politician of the 5th century
• Theagenes, last commander of the Theban Sacred Band, who died at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC

Other uses:

• a genus of skipper butterflies, see Theagenes (butterfly)

For other persons with the same name ,see Theagenes (disambiguation)

Theagenes was a historical writer, of uncertain date. Stephanus of Byzantium frequently quotes from a work of his, entitled Macedonica (s. v. Altus (Mygdonia) ), as also from another entitled Carica. It is, perhaps, the same Theagenes, who wrote a work on Aegina, quoted by John Tzetzes.

Theagenes is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Theagenes (, floruit 470s–480s) was an Athenian politician.