Theagenes of Megara was among the first of Greektyrants, possibly inspired by Cypselus of neighbouring Corinth. Megara (Greek: ÎœÎγαÏα; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is an ancient city in Attica, Greece. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Cypselus (or Kypselos) was the first tyrant of Corinth, Greece in the 7th century BC. With increased wealth and more complicated trade relations and social structures, Greek city-states tended to overthrow their traditional hereditary priest-kings; Corinth, the richest archaic polis, led the way. ... Corinth, or Korinth (ΚόÏινθος; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a Greek city, on the Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnesus to the mainland of Greece. ...
He makes an appearance in history for three reasons.
He slaughtered the flocks of the rich (an act which is incomprehensible due to the lack of background information behind the act)
He tried about 630 people in the courts to help his son-in-law Cylon get to power in Athens
He built a fountain house that can still be seen off the “Road of the Spring-House” in modern Megara.
Theagenes of Thasos (Θεαγένης), pancratiast, son of Timosthenes (a priest of the Heracles temple in Thasos)
For Theagenes of Thasos, wishing to win the prizes for boxing and for the pancratium at the same Festival, overcame Euthymus at boxing, though he had not the strength to gain the wild olive in the pancratium, because he was already exhausted in his fight with Euthymus.
Thereupon the umpires fined Theagenes a talent, to be sacred to the god, and a talent for the harm done to Euthymus, holding that it was merely to spite him that he entered for the boxing competition.
Unlike Theagenes and Charicleia, who pretend to be siblings, Reuel Briggs and Dianthe Lusk, the protagonists of Of One Blood, actually are brother and sister but, unaware that they share a fl mother and white father, they marry one another.
In fact, before she met Theagenes, she prided herself on her skills as a huntress and on her chastity, dedicating herself to the goddess Artemis; this connection suggests a further bond with Hopkins's Dianthe/Diana.
Theagenes, for his part, is placed in a more typically feminized and powerless position when, as the slave of the lusty Arsace, he is tortured as a means of making him more sexually compliant.
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