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MENIPPUS

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 131 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MENIPPUS , of
Gadara
  in Coele-Syria,
Greek
  cynic and satirist, lived during the 3rd
century
  B.C. According to
Diogenes
  Laertius (vi. 8) he was originally a slave, amassed a fortune as a money-lender, lost it, and committed suicide through grief. His works (written in a mixture of
prose
  and verse) are all lost. He discussed serious subjects in a spirit of raillery, and especially delighted in attacking the Epicureans and Stoics. His writings exercised considerable
influence
  upon later literature. One of the dialogues attributed to Lucian, his avowed imitator, who frequently mentions him, is called Menippus. But this dialogue is regarded with suspicion, and since the sub-
title
  (" The Oracle of the Dead ") resembles that of a
work
  ascribed to Menippus by
Diogenes
  Laertius, it has been suggested that it is really the
work
  of Menippus himself, or at any rate imitated from his NErcvta by the author, whether Lucian or another. It is well known that the Menippean satires of M. Terentius Varro, the fragments of which give an
idea
  of this
kind
  of composition, were called after Menippus of
Gadara
  (see Teuffel-Schwabe, Hist. of Roman Literature, 165, 3).


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