Theagenes of Rhegium (Greek: Θεαγένης ὁ Ῥηγῖνος, Theagenēs ho Rhēginos; fl.
Theagenes's writings are lost, the only information about his life or his doctrines must be reconstructed from summaries, fragments and characterizations of his work in later authors.
[2] Theagenes was one of the earliest proponents of the allegorical method of reading texts, defending the mythology of Homer from more rationalist attacks,[3] possibly as a response to the criticisms of early Greek philosophers such as Xenophanes.
The most recent edition of this catalogue is: Diels, Hermann; Kranz, Walther (1957).
Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (in Ancient Greek, Latin, and German).