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HEGEMON OF THASOS

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 208 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HAN-HEG
HEGEMON OF THASOS ,
Greek
  writer of the old comedy, nicknamed cDaK.ij from his fondness for lentils. Hardly anything is known of him, except that he flourished during the Peloponnesian War. According to
Aristotle
  (Poetics, ii. 5) he was the inventor of a
kind
  of
parody
 ; by slightly altering the wording in well-known poems he transformed the- sublime into the ridiculous. When the news of the disaster in
Sicily
  reached Athens, his
parody
  of the Gigantomachia was being performed; it is said that the
audience
  were so amused by it that, instead of leaving to show their grief, they remained in their seats. He
was also the author of a comedy called Philinne (Philine), written in the manner of
Eupolis
  and
Cratinus
 , in which he attacked a well-known courtesan. Athenaeus (p. 698), who preserves some parodic hexameters of his, relates other anecdotes concerning him (pp. 5, ro8, 407).
Fragments in T. Kock, Comicorum Atticorum fragmenta, i. (188o) ; B. J. Pcltzer, De parodica Graecorum poesi (1855).


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