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The elegiac verses attributed to Theognis present him as a complex character and an exponent of traditional Greek morality.
Thus for example Isocrates includes him among " the best advisers for human life ", even able to be ignored as a wowser, yet Plato's Socrates cites some Theognidean verses to dismiss the poet as a confused and self-contradictory sophist whose teachings are not to be trusted, while a modern scholar excuses self-contradictions as typical of a lifelong poet writing over many years and at the whim of inspiration.
The Theognidea might in fact be a collection of elegiac poems by different authors ( see Modern scholarship below ) and the " life " that emerges from them depends on which poems editors consider authentic.
Two modern authorities have drawn these portraits of Theognis, based on their own selections of his work:
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